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 RTX 5090

CORE STATE GB202

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2407 MHz

TDP 575 W

BUS WIDTH 512 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,081

14,411

geekbench_metal

59,832

N/A

geekbench_opencl

N/A

380,114

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

379,571

passmark_directx_10

N/A

226

passmark_directx_11

N/A

341

passmark_directx_12

N/A

185

passmark_directx_9

N/A

395

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,413

passmark_g3d

N/A

39,650

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

26,756

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 590

RTX 5090

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

21,760 +844.4%

Shaders

2,304

21,760 +844.4%

TMUs

144

680 +372.2%

ROPs

32

176 +450.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

170

Clocks

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2017 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2407 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

32 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

32,768 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

512 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

1.79 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

96 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

423.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

1,636.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS

104.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

1.637 TFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)

104.8 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

170

Tensor Cores

—

680

Power

TDP

175 W

575 W

TDP (W)

175

575 +228.6%

Suggested PSU

450 W

950 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GB202

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 50

Process Size

12 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

92,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

750 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

122.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

12.0

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

304 mm 12 inches

Height

—

137 mm 5.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

279 USD

1,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 40

Successor

Vega

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