AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1545MHz vs 1226MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 XT

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +62%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Nov 2018

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1074 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1226 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

36

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

137.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

4.394 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

4.394 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

274.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Polaris 10 LE1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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