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
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 480
CORE STATE
GF100
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
GTX 480
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
480
-79.2%
Shaders
2,304
480
-79.2%
TMUs
144
60
-58.3%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
15
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
701 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1401 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,536
-81.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
177.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
21.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
42.06 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
1,345.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
175 W
250 W
TDP (W)
175
250
+42.9%
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Polaris 30
GF100
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
GeForce 400
Process Size
12 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
3,100 million
Die Size
232 mm²
529 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
5.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
2.0
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
279 USD
499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GeForce 200
Successor
Vega
GeForce 500