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

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 6700 XT

CORE STATE Navi 22

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2581 MHz

TDP 230 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,081

2,435

geekbench_metal

59,832

129,041

geekbench_opencl

N/A

100,730

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

108,032

passmark_directx_10

N/A

124

passmark_directx_11

N/A

173

passmark_directx_12

N/A

77

passmark_directx_9

N/A

242

passmark_g2d

N/A

951

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,786

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,336

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 590

RX 6700 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

2,560 +11.1%

Shaders

2,304

2,560 +11.1%

TMUs

144

160 +11.1%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

36

40 +11.1%

Clocks

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2321 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2581 MHz

Game Clock

—

2424 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

12,288 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

384.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

L3 Cache

—

96 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

165.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

825.9 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)

26.43 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

40

Power

TDP

175 W

230 W

TDP (W)

175

230 +31.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 22

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

12 nm

7 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

17,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

335 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

51.3M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

2.1

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

—

110 mm 4.3 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

279 USD

479 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

Navi

Successor

Vega

Navi III

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