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    GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX 960

    GeForce GTX 590
    Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 24 Mar 2011
    GeForce GTX 590
    GeForce GTX 960
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 22 Jan 2015
    GeForce GTX 960

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 590
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 960
      106%

    Relative performance

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960

    245 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.
    Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 960

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

    The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 590GeForce GTX 960
    GPU NameGF110 (GF110-351-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
    Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size520 mm²vs228 mm²
    Transistors3,000 millionvs2,940 million
    Shaders512vs1024
    Compute Units16vs8
    Core clock608 MHzvs1127 MHz
    ROPs48vs32
    TMUs64vs64

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 590GeForce GTX 960
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width384 bit x2vs128 bit
    Memory Speed854 MHz
    3416 MHz effective    		vs1753 MHz
    7012 MHz effective
    Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 590GeForce GTX 960
    TDP365 wattsvs120 watts
    Release Date24 Mar 2011vs22 Jan 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 590
      39.00 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 960
      36.10 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 590
      77.80 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 960
      72.10 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 590
      328.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 960
      112.20 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 590
      2488.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 960
      2308.10 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 590
      9740
    • GeForce GTX 960
      10380

    Points (higher is better)

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