GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 590

CORE STATE Polaris 30

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1545 MHz

TDP 175 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 6500 XT

CORE STATE Navi 24

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2815 MHz

TDP 107 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,081

235

geekbench_metal

59,832

N/A

geekbench_opencl

N/A

48,915

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

54,648

passmark_directx_10

N/A

60

passmark_directx_11

N/A

90

passmark_directx_12

N/A

38

passmark_directx_9

N/A

108

passmark_g2d

N/A

815

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,608

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,456

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 590

RX 6500 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

1,024 -55.6%

Shaders

2,304

1,024 -55.6%

TMUs

144

64 -55.6%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

36

16 -55.6%

Clocks

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2815 MHz

Game Clock

—

2610 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

2248 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

143.9 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

2 MB

1024 KB

L3 Cache

—

16 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

90.08 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)

11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

16

Power

TDP

175 W

107 W

TDP (W)

175

107 -38.9%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 24

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

12 nm

6 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

5,400 million

Die Size

232 mm²

107 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

50.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

2.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

—

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Other

Launch Price

279 USD

199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

Navi

Successor

Vega

Navi III

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