Radeon 9800 XT and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 9800 XT vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon 9800 XT
58
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon 9800 XT
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
R360
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
November 2018
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
412 MHz
1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
117 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.296
222.5
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
730 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
23.36 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.0
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+