AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +72%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Aug 2012

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

New Zealand

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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