Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 490
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1824 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+510%
7119
GeForce GTX 490
1166
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Unknown
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
-
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
2304
Shading Units
480
144
TMUs
60
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.24 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.48 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1166 GFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
145.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
365W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
GF100
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
GF100-375-A3
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Fermi
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
