AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (175W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1733MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +24%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

352.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GP104-410-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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