GeForce RTX 4060 vs Radeon HD 7590M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated51
Place by popularitynot in top-1002
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data100.00
Power efficiencyno data30.71
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameThamesAD107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2012 (12 years ago)18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4803072
Core clock speed600 MHz1830 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors716 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate14.40236.2
Floating-point processing power0.576 TFLOPS15.11 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2496
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data240 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2125 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s272.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2012 18 May 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 115 Watt

HD 7590M has 538.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7590M and GeForce RTX 4060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7590M is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4060 is a desktop one.


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