Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)
Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1905MHz vs 1545MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
7119
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+37%
9754
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 590
4775
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+97%
9425
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 590
2147
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+105%
4414
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 590
24
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+62%
39
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 590
46
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+60%
74
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 590
71
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+56%
111
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 590
39
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+51%
59
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 590
74
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+52%
113
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 590
101
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+40%
142
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 590
42
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+54%
65
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 590
67
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+19%
80
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 590
110
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+69%
186
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Jul 2019
Polaris
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
1605 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1905 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
40
2304
Shading Units
2560
144
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.9 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
304.8 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.51 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.754 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
609.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
Navi 10
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
7 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
10.3 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
251 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
