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 680
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1058 MHz
TDP
195 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
GTX 680
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
1,536
-33.3%
Shaders
2,304
1,536
-33.3%
TMUs
144
128
-11.1%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
1006 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1058 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
2,048
-75.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
192.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
33.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
3.250 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
135.4 GFLOPS (1:24)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
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Power
TDP
175 W
195 W
TDP (W)
175
195
+11.4%
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Kepler
GPU Name
Polaris 30
GK104
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
GeForce 600
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
3,540 million
Die Size
232 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
12.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.175
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
256 mm
10.1 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
279 USD
499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GeForce 500
Successor
Vega
GeForce 700