Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison
Radeon RX 470
Radeon RX 590 GME
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
March 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
1420 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
204.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
FreeSync
+
-