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
GPU
Arc A550M
CORE STATE
DG2-512
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2050 MHz
TDP
60 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
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PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
A550M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,048
-11.1%
Shaders
2,304
2,048
-11.1%
TMUs
144
128
-11.1%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
36
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Execution Units
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256
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
2050 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
8,192
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
2 MB
8 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
131.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
262.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
8.397 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
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FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
16.79 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
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16
XMX Cores
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256
Power
TDP
175 W
60 W
TDP (W)
175
60
-65.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Polaris 30
DG2-512
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Alchemist
(Arc 5 Mobile)
Process Size
12 nm
6 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
21,700 million
Die Size
232 mm²
406 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
53.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.6
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
279 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
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Successor
Vega
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