AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (2310MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +261%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 GME

4432

Radeon RX 6950 XT +384%

21457

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

May 2022

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

80

-

2304

Shading Units

5120

144

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

335W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Navi 21

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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