AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1545MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +127%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

May 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GK104

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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