NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2105MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +1199%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 500

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Navi 21

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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