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

RTX A4000

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1560 MHz

TDP 140 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,081

2,604

geekbench_metal

59,832

N/A

geekbench_opencl

N/A

121,988

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

111,712

passmark_directx_10

N/A

126

passmark_directx_11

N/A

158

passmark_directx_12

N/A

72

passmark_directx_9

N/A

240

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,024

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,459

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,760

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 590

RTX A4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

6,144 +166.7%

Shaders

2,304

6,144 +166.7%

TMUs

144

192 +33.3%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

36

—

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1469 MHz

735 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1560 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

16,384 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

149.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

299.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

299.5 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)

19.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

175 W

140 W

TDP (W)

175

140 -20.0%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GA104

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

12 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

17,400 million

Die Size

232 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Samsung

Density

24.6M / mm²

44.4M / 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

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

279 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

Quadro Turing

Successor

Vega

Workstation Ada

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