AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (2581MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

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

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 XT +101%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6700 XT +188%

12779

Radeon RX 590 GME

4432

Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Mar 2021

Release Date

Mar 2020

Navi II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

36

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

230W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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