GeForce GTX 590 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this specific model. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 590		6680 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 757 (13%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (115%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 590 should be quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 136064 (71%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a lot (more or less 21%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16384 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 590 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26912 (86%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.