Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
Radeon RX 590 GME
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
March 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1420 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
204.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3