AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1815MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +56%

11.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4760

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +142%

11546

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +100%

48

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +97%

91

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +81%

129

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +71%

67

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +62%

120

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +62%

164

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +95%

82

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

67

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +76%

118

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +63%

180

Radeon RX 590

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jul 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3072

144

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

TU104

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

TU104-450-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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