Radeon R7 Graphics and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

Radeon R7 Graphics

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

Spectre

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2014

November 2018

Interface

IGP

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

980 MHz

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

686 MHz

1469 MHz

Floating-point performance

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

2,410 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

31.36

222.5

Memory type

System Shared

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

System Shared

8 GB

Memory bus width

System Shared

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

System Shared

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.0

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync