GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 590
3441
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GTX 590
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF110
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
December 2010
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
880 MHz
Core clock speed
607 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
550 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
2 GB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-