GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1545MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780

4156

Radeon RX 590 +71%

7119

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780

2795

Radeon RX 590 +70%

4757

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

2304

Shading Units

2304

192

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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