Radeon HD 6930 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6930
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Cayman
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
750 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,920.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
186 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
60.00
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+