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GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

The GeForce GTX 590 has clock speeds of 607 MHz on the GPU, and 855 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which features GPU clock speed of 1365 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1920 SPUs, 120 TAUs, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060 160 Watts
GeForce GTX 590 365 Watts
Difference: 205 Watts (128%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2060 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 590 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590 328320 MB/sec
Difference: 15744 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be a lot (about 111%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590 77696 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 86104 (111%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060 65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590 58272 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7248 (12%)

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

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GeForce GTX 590

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 590 GeForce RTX 2060
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 2011 January 2019
Code Name GF110 TU106-200A-KA-A1
Memory 1536 MB (x2) 6144 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz (x2) 1365 MHz
Memory Speed 3420 MHz (x2) 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 365 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 328320 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 77696 Mtexels/sec 163800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 58272 Mpixels/sec 65520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 (x2) 1920
Texture Mapping Units 64 (x2) 120
Render Output Units 48 (x2) 48
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit (x2) 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 12 nm
Transistors 3000 million 10800 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 590

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GeForce RTX 2060

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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