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 6950 XT

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2310 MHz

TDP 335 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,081

4,235

geekbench_metal

59,832

222,653

geekbench_opencl

N/A

175,410

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

164,748

passmark_directx_10

N/A

164

passmark_directx_11

N/A

300

passmark_directx_12

N/A

114

passmark_directx_9

N/A

303

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,063

passmark_g3d

N/A

28,070

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,199

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 590

RX 6950 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

5,120 +122.2%

Shaders

2,304

5,120 +122.2%

TMUs

144

320 +122.2%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

36

80 +122.2%

Clocks

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2310 MHz

Game Clock

—

2100 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 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

576.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

L3 Cache

—

128 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

295.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)

47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

80

Power

TDP

175 W

335 W

TDP (W)

175

335 +91.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

700 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 21

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

12 nm

7 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

26,800 million

Die Size

232 mm²

520 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

51.5M / 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

Triple-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

120 mm 4.7 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

279 USD

1,099 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

Navi

Successor

Vega

Navi III

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