Radeon RX 590 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1469 MHz

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

480

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

FreeSync

+

-