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 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,081

474

geekbench_metal

59,832

15,163

geekbench_opencl

N/A

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 590

GTX 980

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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Clocks

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

175 W

165 W

TDP (W)

175

165 -5.7%

Suggested PSU

450 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GM204

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 900

Process Size

12 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

13.1M / 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

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

279 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10

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