AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +1274%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

4

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

240W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

R600

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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