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 VII
CORE STATE
Vega 20
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1750 MHz
TDP
295 W
BUS WIDTH
4096 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.1
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
VII
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
3,840
+66.7%
Shaders
2,304
3,840
+66.7%
TMUs
144
240
+66.7%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
36
60
+66.7%
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
1400 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1000 MHz
2 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
16,384
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
4096 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
1.02 TB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
112.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
420.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
13.44 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
3.360 TFLOPS (1:4)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
26.88 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
175 W
295 W
TDP (W)
175
295
+68.6%
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.1
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Vega 20
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Vega II
(Radeon VII)
Process Size
12 nm
7 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
13,230 million
Die Size
232 mm²
331 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
40.0M / 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
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
280 mm
11 inches
Height
—
125 mm
4.9 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
279 USD
699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
Vega
Successor
Vega
Navi