NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (2520MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +393%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 50

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

50

SM Count

-

6400

Shading Units

2304

200

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

40 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GB205

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

4 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.7 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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