AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon VII AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1750MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +88%

13.44 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon VII +95%

9307

Radeon RX 590

4760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon VII +83%

44

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon VII +78%

82

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon VII +60%

114

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon VII +66%

65

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon VII +54%

114

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon VII +51%

153

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon VII +57%

66

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon VII

62

Radeon RX 590 +8%

67

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon VII +23%

136

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon VII

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Nov 2018

Vega II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

36

3840

Shading Units

2304

240

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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