AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2018
Unknown
Generation
Polaris
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1469 MHz
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Boost Clock
1545 MHz
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Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
18
Shading Units
2304
1440
TMUs
144
72
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Hemlock
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Hemlock PRO(215-0735443)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
302W
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.