Radeon 8500 X4 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 X4

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

R200

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

Interface

PCI-X

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

92 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.000

222.5

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MBps

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

8.1

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.3

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync