NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (295W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +980%

13.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 500

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1400 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

295W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Vega 20

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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