AMD Baffin
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
AMD Baffin
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
344
Value for money (0-100)
20.75
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Fermi
Baffin
Code name
GF110
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
24 March 2011 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)
$699
$78
Price now
$600 (0.9x MSRP)
4.0
GCN generation
no data
no data
Value for money
1.68
Baffin
GPU code name
GF110
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1024
Pipelines
512
855 MHz
Core clock speed
607 MHz
1200 MHz
Boost Clock
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3,000 million
Transistor count
3,000 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 W
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
CUDA cores
1024
1024
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
3,000 million
Number of transistors
3,000 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
365 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590.

Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Length
11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
SLI options
+
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
Height
4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 can be seen in this section.

Memory type
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590, the size and number of monitors.

Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is the additional functionality.

3D Vision
+
CUDA
+
Surround
+
DSR
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Baffin and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Baffin or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Baffin
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Baffin
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Baffin
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Baffin
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Baffin
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Baffin

Cheaper ($78 vs $600 (0.9x MSRP))

More pipelines (1024 vs 512)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (80 W vs 365 Watt)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

15.3% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Baffin or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 .

AMD Baffin versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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