AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +73%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Tonga

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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