AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (295W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0TB/s vs 1.02TB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +980%

13.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon VII

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Mar 2011

Vega II

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

-

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1536MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1.02TB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

512

240

TMUs

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GF110

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

3 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

365W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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