NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (2610MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +512%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

60

SM Count

-

7680

Shading Units

2304

240

TMUs

144

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

285W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

4 nm

Process Size

14 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

295 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

1.3

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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