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 980 Ti
CORE STATE
GM200
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1076 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
GTX 980 Ti
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,816
+22.2%
Shaders
2,304
2,816
+22.2%
TMUs
144
176
+22.2%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
36
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1076 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 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
384 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
336.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
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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
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Polaris 30
GM200
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
GeForce 900
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
8,000 million
Die Size
232 mm²
601 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
13.3M / 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
649 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GeForce 700
Successor
Vega
GeForce 10