AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +368%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2011

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

512

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF110

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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