AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1545MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +238%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jul 2017

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

14

2304

Shading Units

896

144

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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