GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
VS
RADEON
Radeon Vega 8
CORE STATE
Raven
VRAM
System Shared
CLOCK SPEED
1100 MHz
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
System Shared
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
Vega 8
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
512
-77.8%
Shaders
2,304
512
-77.8%
TMUs
144
32
-77.8%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
36
8
-77.8%
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
300 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
System Shared
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
System Shared
VRAM (MB)
8,192
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Memory Type
GDDR5
System Shared
Memory Bus
256 bit
System Shared
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
System Dependent
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
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Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
8.800 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
35.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
1,126.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
70.40 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
2.253 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
175 W
25 W
TDP (W)
175
25
-85.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Raven
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Vega IGP
(Raven Ridge)
Process Size
12 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
4,940 million
Die Size
232 mm²
210 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
24.6M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Motherboard Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Other
Launch Price
279 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GCN 3.0 IGP
Successor
Vega
Vega II IGP