Radeon RX 590 and RTX A500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 590 vs RTX A500
Radeon RX 590
9695
RTX A500
6995
Radeon RX 590
RTX A500
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 30
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2018
November 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1545 MHz
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
1469 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
222.5
113.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
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
+
-