NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 and ATI Radeon HD 5830 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

ATI Radeon HD 5830

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 52% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 77.7 billion / sec vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Around 39% better floating-point performance: 2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 1,792.0 gflops
3x more maximum memory size: 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 1 GB
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3341 vs 1733

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 March 2011 vs 25 February 2010
Core clock speed	1215 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	77.7 billion / sec vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 1,792.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3341 vs 1733

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

Around 9% higher pipelines: 1120 vs 1024
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 365 Watt
2.3x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1707 MHz
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 394

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1120 vs 1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 365 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1707 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 394

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5830

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3341

1733

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

394

403

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590	ATI Radeon HD 5830
PassMark - G3D Mark	3341	1733
PassMark - G2D Mark	394	403
Geekbench - OpenCL	12830
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	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590	ATI Radeon HD 5830
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF110	Cypress
Launch date	24 March 2011	25 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	768	558
Price now	$184
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	30.41
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	1215 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	1024
Floating-point performance	2x 1,244.2 gflops	1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C
Pipelines	1024	1120
Texture fill rate	77.7 billion / sec	44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	365 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	2,154 million
Boost clock speed		800 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)	282 mm
SLI options	Quad
Supplementary power connectors	Two 8-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.2	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	327.7 GB / s	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	768-bit (384-bit per GPU)	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1707 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround
AMD Eyefinity