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
RADEON
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
CORE STATE
Vega 10
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1600 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
Vega Frontier Edition
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
4,096
+77.8%
Shaders
2,304
4,096
+77.8%
TMUs
144
256
+77.8%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
36
64
+77.8%
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
1382 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
945 MHz
1890 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
16,384
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
483.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
409.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
819.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
26.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
175 W
300 W
TDP (W)
175
300
+71.4%
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Vega 10
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Radeon Pro Vega
(Vega Series)
Process Size
12 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
12,500 million
Die Size
232 mm²
495 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
24.6M / mm²
25.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
279 USD
999 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
Radeon Pro Polaris
Successor
Vega
Radeon Pro Navi