Radeon RX 590 vs RTX 4000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2175MHz vs 1545MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
7119
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+275%
26730
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 590
4775
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+200%
14340
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 590
2147
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+212%
6708
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Aug 2023
Polaris
Generation
Workstation Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
160bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
48
2304
Shading Units
6144
144
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
130W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
AD104
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8