AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1545MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +71%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

4.156 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 +70%

4757

GeForce GTX 780

2795

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

May 2013

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2304

144

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

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 Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GK110

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

561 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

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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