AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD 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

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +37%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 XT +99%

9482

Radeon RX 590

4761

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +62%

39

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +60%

74

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +56%

111

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +51%

59

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +52%

113

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +40%

142

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +54%

65

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +19%

80

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +69%

186

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon RX 5700 XT

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Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Nov 2018

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

36

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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