AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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AMD Radeon RX 590 GME AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

Lower TDP (175W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +10%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

5.914 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 GME +4%

4429

Radeon R9 390X

4245

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Jun 2015

Polaris

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

44

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Grenada

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

275W

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 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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