GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce GTX 590 Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 24 Mar 2011

GeForce GTX 660 Ti Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 16 Aug 2012

Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 590
110%
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

GeForce GTX 590
135%
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 590

35% higher gaming performance.

Supports PhysX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Ti

215 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 590 .

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Supports PhysX

Supports G-Sync

Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 590

The GeForce GTX 590 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce GTX 590		GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU Name	GF110 (GF110-351-A1)	vs	GK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process	40 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	520 mmÂ²	vs	294 mmÂ²
Transistors	3,000 million	vs	3,540 million
Shaders	512	vs	1344
Compute Units	16	vs	7
Core clock	608 MHz	vs	915 MHz
ROPs	48	vs	24
TMUs	64	vs	112

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 590		GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	384 bit x2	vs	192 bit
Memory Speed	854 MHz 3416 MHz effective	vs	1502 MHz 6008 MHz effective
Memory Size	1536 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 590		GeForce GTX 660 Ti
TDP	365 watts	vs	150 watts
Release Date	24 Mar 2011	vs	16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 590
39.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 590
77.80 GT/s
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 590
328.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 590
2488.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 590
9740
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
8790

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

GeForce GTX 590
47
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
37

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

GeForce GTX 590
62
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
43