AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA RTX A400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1762MHz vs 1545MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +163%

7.119 TFLOPS

RTX A400

2.706 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

RTX A400

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Apr 2024

Polaris

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

727 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1762 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

24

-

RT Cores

6

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.19 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.29 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.706 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.706 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

42.29 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GA107

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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