Radeon RX 590 and A100 SXM4 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590

A100 SXM4

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

May 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1469 MHz

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

400 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

609.1

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2E

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

40 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

2430 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.0

OpenCL

2.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.140

FreeSync

+

-