Radeon RX 590 and Radeon RX 5800 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590

Radeon RX 5800

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

Navi 23

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

1735 MHz

Core clock speed

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

275 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

333.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12.0 (12_1)

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync