AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (2505MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +584%

48.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4760

GeForce RTX 4080 +493%

28257

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

GeForce RTX 4080 +450%

132

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

GeForce RTX 4080 +434%

246

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

GeForce RTX 4080 +322%

300

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

GeForce RTX 4080 +215%

123

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

GeForce RTX 4080 +122%

165

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

GeForce RTX 4080 +86%

188

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

GeForce RTX 4080 +202%

127

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

67

GeForce RTX 4080 +170%

181

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 4080 +65%

182

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Sep 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

9728

144

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

AD103

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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