AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (2498MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 355W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +762%

61.39 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +543%

30621

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +429%

127

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +395%

228

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +336%

310

Radeon RX 590

71

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +316%

175

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +161%

175

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +72%

190

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Nov 2018

Navi III

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1929 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2498 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

96

Compute Units

36

-

6144

Shading Units

2304

384

TMUs

144

192

ROPs

32

-

96

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

479.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

959.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

122.8 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

61.39 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

1.918 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

355W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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