GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 590
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GF110
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
January 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
800 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
1,229 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
768
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
85 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
38.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
3 GB
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131