AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon RX 590 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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

Lower TDP (175W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1600MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +84%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jul 2017

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

64

2304

Shading Units

4096

144

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Vega 10

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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