AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1750MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (175W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +105%

13.44 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon VII +110%

9307

Radeon RX 590 GME

4429

Radeon VII

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Mar 2020

Vega II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 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

45.44 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 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

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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