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
P106-100
CORE STATE
GP106
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1709 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
P106-100
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
1,280
-44.4%
Shaders
2,304
1,280
-44.4%
TMUs
144
80
-44.4%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
36
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SM Count
—
10
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
2002 MHz
8 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
192 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
136.7 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
68.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
175 W
120 W
TDP (W)
175
120
-31.4%
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Pascal
GPU Name
Polaris 30
GP106
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
12 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
4,400 million
Die Size
232 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
22.0M / 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
—
6.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
250 mm
9.8 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
279 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
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Successor
Vega
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