AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2018
Oct 2013
Generation
Polaris
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1469 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
—
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
44
Shading Units
2304
2816
TMUs
144
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
290W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.