AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (2610MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +463%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

60

2304

Shading Units

7680

144

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

285W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

AD104

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

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

6.6

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