AMD Radeon R9 A375 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 A375 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R9 A375

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 A375

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 1 month(s) later
476.2x more texture fill rate: 37.00 GTexel/s vs 77.7 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	2015 vs 24 March 2011
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s vs 77.7 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 2 GB
Around 52% higher memory clock speed: 1707 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 394 vs 232
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3341 vs 1024

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1215 MHz vs 900 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 640
Maximum memory size	3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1707 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	394 vs 232
PassMark - G3D Mark	3341 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 A375
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

394

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1024

3341

Name	AMD Radeon R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	394
PassMark - G3D Mark	1024	3341
Geekbench - OpenCL		12959
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		30.921
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1116.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		49.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		107.239
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3330
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3330
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Venus	GF110
Launch date	2015	24 March 2011
Place in performance rating	632	773
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$184
Value for money (0-100)		30.41
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1215 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1184 GFLOPS
Pipelines	640	1024
Pixel fill rate	14.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s	77.7 billion / sec
Transistor count	1500 million	3,000 million
CUDA cores		1024
Floating-point performance		2x 1,244.2 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		97 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		365 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)
SLI options		Quad
Supplementary power connectors		Two 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	327.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1707 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround