Quadro FX 5800 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison

Quadro FX 5800

Radeon RX 590 GME

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

GT200B

Polaris 20

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2008

March 2020

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1420 MHz

Core clock speed

610 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

189 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

48.80

204.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

1.3

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3