GPU Comparison

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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

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 1660

CORE STATE TU116

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1785 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,081

1,065

geekbench_metal

59,832

N/A

geekbench_opencl

N/A

57,988

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

55,845

passmark_directx_10

N/A

61

passmark_directx_11

N/A

79

passmark_directx_12

N/A

49

passmark_directx_9

N/A

177

passmark_g2d

N/A

776

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,646

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,963

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 590

GTX 1660

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

1,408 -38.9%

Shaders

2,304

1,408 -38.9%

TMUs

144

88 -38.9%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

22

Clocks

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1530 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1785 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

2001 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

6,144 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

192.1 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

85.68 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

175 W

120 W

TDP (W)

175

120 -31.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Turing

GPU Name

Polaris 30

TU116

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 16

Process Size

12 nm

12 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

6,600 million

Die Size

232 mm²

284 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

23.2M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

7.5

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

229 mm 9 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

279 USD

219 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 10

Successor

Vega

GeForce 20

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