ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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ATI Radeon HD 5850 AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +213%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Mar 2020

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

36

1440

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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