NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (2505MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

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

7424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +644%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +537%

28272

Radeon RX 590 GME

4432

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 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

-

Compute Units

36

76

SM Count

-

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

45.44 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

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 Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Polaris 20

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

379 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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