AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 230W)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (2581MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +85%

13.21 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4757

Radeon RX 6700 XT +168%

12779

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

Radeon RX 6700 XT +116%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

Radeon RX 6700 XT +108%

96

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

Radeon RX 6700 XT +100%

142

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

Radeon RX 6700 XT +94%

76

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

Radeon RX 6700 XT +94%

144

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

Radeon RX 6700 XT +91%

193

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

Radeon RX 6700 XT +97%

83

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

67

Radeon RX 6700 XT +55%

104

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon RX 6700 XT +50%

166

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Mar 2021

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

40

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Navi 22

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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