AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT 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 9070 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2700MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 260W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 9070 XT +210%

22.12 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2018

Navi IV(RX 9000)

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2210 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2700 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

36

-

4096

Shading Units

2304

256

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

259.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

691.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

44.24 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

22.12 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

260W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 48

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 48 XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

RDNA 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

4 nm

Process Size

12 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.7 billion

Unknown

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

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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