GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon R9 295X2

GeForce GTX 590
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 590
Radeon R9 295X2
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Apr 2014
Radeon R9 295X2

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 590
    100%
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    271%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 590

135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 295X2 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 295X2

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 171% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 295X2

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 295X2

The Radeon R9 295X2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 590Radeon R9 295X2
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-351-A1)vsVesuvius (Vesuvius XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders512vs2816
Compute Units16vs44
Core clock608 MHzvs1018 MHz
ROPs48vs64
TMUs64vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 590Radeon R9 295X2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bit x2vs512 bit x2
Memory Speed854 MHz
3416 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 590Radeon R9 295X2
TDP365 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date24 Mar 2011vs29 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 590
    39.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    130.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 590
    77.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    358.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 590
    328.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    640.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 590
    2488.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    11466.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 590
    9740
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    26440

Points (higher is better)