AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1420MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +59%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 GME +89%

4429

Radeon R9 280X

2339

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Oct 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon RX 580

2

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

3

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

4

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

5

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

6

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

7

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon Pro V7300X

8

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD FirePro S7000

9

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

10

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA TITAN V

Related News

1

Only 3 Weeks Left! AMD Zen5 Launching Soon

2

Ilya Departs OpenAI to Launch New Company Aiming at Superintelligence!

3

Comprehensive Overview of AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen5 Desktop CPUs

4

Intel May Increase Base Frequencies for Arrow Lake-S / H / HX, High-End Chips to Reach 3GHz or Higher

5

It's 2024: This Company Released a Laptop Supporting DOS and Windows 95

6

AMD's Strix Halo Supports Up to 128GB Memory, Clearly Designed for AI Large Language Models

7

AMD to Launch Advanced Ryzen AI PRO Series Soon

8

Intel Delays Lunar Lake Shipment: Postponed from June to September

9

Initial Test Results of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Revealed: IPC Improvement Meets Expectations

10

Elon Musk Responds to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: Humanoid Robots Will Be Ten Times More Common than Cars