AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1545MHz vs 1284MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +35%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 +26%

4757

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3759

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Oct 2018

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

32

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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