AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1695MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +290%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Apr 2021

Polaris

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

8192

144

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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