AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon R7 265

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon R7 265

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1545MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +275%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon R7 265

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Feb 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

16

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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