NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (2505MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +584%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +493%

28257

Radeon RX 590

4760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +450%

132

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +434%

246

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +322%

300

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +215%

123

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +122%

165

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +86%

188

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +202%

127

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +170%

181

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +65%

182

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

9728

Shading Units

2304

304

TMUs

144

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Polaris 30

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

175W

700 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 Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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