GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 590 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTX 590
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N16E-GXX SLI
GF110
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
March 2011
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
Two 8-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1228 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1126 MHz
607 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1024
Floating-point performance
-
2x 1,244.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
10400 Million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
330 Watt
365 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
-
77.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bus width
256 Bit
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
1707 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
327.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12_1
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.2
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A