GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 980
11457
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GTX 980
GeForce GTX 590
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GM204
GF110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
March 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
Two 8-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1064 MHz
607 MHz
CUDA cores
2048
1024
Floating-point performance
4,981 gflops
2x 1,244.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
365 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
77.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bus width
256 Bit
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1707 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
327.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
+
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-