Radeon RX 590 and GA102 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590

GA102

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

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Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

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Core clock speed

1469 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

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Texture fill rate

222.5

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

FreeSync

+

-

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP11