GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 590

GeForce GTX 560 Ti Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 25 Jan 2011

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

Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
100%
GeForce GTX 590
209%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
100%
GeForce GTX 590
209%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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

Supports PhysX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 590

109% higher gaming performance.

Supports PhysX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560 Ti		GeForce GTX 590
GPU Name	GF114 (GF114-400-A1)	vs	GF110 (GF110-351-A1)
Fab Process	40 nm	vs	40 nm
Die Size	332 mmÂ²	vs	520 mmÂ²
Transistors	1,950 million	vs	3,000 million
Shaders	384	vs	512
Compute Units	8	vs	16
Core clock	823 MHz	vs	608 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	48
TMUs	64	vs	64

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 560 Ti		GeForce GTX 590
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	256 bit	vs	384 bit x2
Memory Speed	1002 MHz 4008 MHz effective	vs	854 MHz 3416 MHz effective
Memory Size	1024 Mb	vs	1536 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 560 Ti		GeForce GTX 590
TDP	170 watts	vs	365 watts
Release Date	25 Jan 2011	vs	24 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
13.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 590
39.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
52.70 GT/s
GeForce GTX 590
77.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
128.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 590
328.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
1263.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 590
2488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
4660
GeForce GTX 590
9740

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
23
GeForce GTX 590
47

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
29
GeForce GTX 590
62