AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1545MHz vs 1440MHz)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +44%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Apr 2021

Polaris

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GA100

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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