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    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 590

    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 25 Oct 2016
    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    GeForce GTX 590
    Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 24 Mar 2011
    GeForce GTX 590

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

    290 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.
    Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 590

    Supports PhysX
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 590
    GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGF110 (GF110-351-A1)
    Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
    Die Size132 mm²vs520 mm²
    Transistors3,300 millionvs3,000 million
    Shaders768vs512
    Compute Units6vs16
    Core clock1290 MHzvs608 MHz
    ROPs32vs48
    TMUs48vs64

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 590
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit x2
    Memory Speed1752 MHz
    7008 MHz effective    		vs854 MHz
    3416 MHz effective
    Memory Size4096 Mbvs1536 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 590
    TDP75 wattsvs365 watts
    Release Date25 Oct 2016vs24 Mar 2011

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      41.30 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 590
      39.00 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      61.90 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 590
      77.80 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      112.10 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 590
      328.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      1981.40 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 590
      2488.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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