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
PG506-232
CORE STATE
GA100
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1440 MHz
TDP
165 W
BUS WIDTH
3072 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 590
PG506-232
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
3,584
+55.6%
Shaders
2,304
3,584
+55.6%
TMUs
144
224
+55.6%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
56
Clocks
Base Clock
1469 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1440 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1215 MHz
2.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
24,576
+200.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
3072 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
933.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
24 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
Tensor Cores
—
224
Power
TDP
175 W
165 W
TDP (W)
175
165
-5.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Polaris 30
GA100
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Server Ampere
(Axx)
Process Size
12 nm
7 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
54,200 million
Die Size
232 mm²
826 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
65.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
—
OpenGL
4.6
—
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
8.0
Shader Model
6.7
—
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
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
Tesla Turing
Successor
Vega
Server Ada