AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 590 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1545MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (175W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +15%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4359

Radeon RX 590 +9%

4761

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

Radeon RX 590 +41%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

Radeon RX 590 +31%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

Radeon RX 590 +42%

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580

27

Radeon RX 590 +44%

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

54

Radeon RX 590 +37%

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580

78

Radeon RX 590 +29%

101

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

60

Radeon RX 590 +11%

67

Radeon RX 580

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Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2018

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

36

2304

Shading Units

2304

144

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

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

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 8-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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