AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1545MHz vs 1244MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +39%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 570

3861

Radeon RX 590 +23%

4760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 570

18

Radeon RX 590 +33%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 570

34

Radeon RX 590 +35%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 570

52

Radeon RX 590 +36%

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 570

27

Radeon RX 590 +44%

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 570

51

Radeon RX 590 +45%

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 570

69

Radeon RX 590 +46%

101

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 570

30

Radeon RX 590 +40%

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 570

57

Radeon RX 590 +17%

67

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 570

100

Radeon RX 590 +10%

110

Radeon RX 570

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Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2018

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

36

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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