Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1545MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+42%
7119
GeForce GTX 980
4981
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 590
+9%
4775
GeForce GTX 980
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 590
+4%
2147
GeForce GTX 980
2049
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 590
+33%
24
GeForce GTX 980
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 590
+31%
46
GeForce GTX 980
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 590
+14%
71
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 590
42
GeForce GTX 980
+42%
60
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 590
+8%
67
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 590
+10%
110
GeForce GTX 980
100
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Sep 2014
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
2048
144
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
165W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
GM204
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
