Radeon RX 590 GME and Radeon RX 6800 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590 GME

Radeon RX 6800

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 20

Navi 21

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2020

November 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1420 MHz

2105 MHz

Core clock speed

1815 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

204.5

505.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8 GB/s

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.5

Vulkan

1.3

1.2