NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1710MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +41%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 +130%

10946

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +91%

46

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +84%

85

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +78%

127

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +61%

63

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +54%

114

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +56%

158

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +152%

106

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +61%

108

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +63%

180

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

2304

184

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Polaris 30

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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