Radeon RX 590 and Radeon RX Vega 9 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590

Radeon RX Vega 9

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

Vega Raven Ridge

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2018

October 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

1300 MHz

Core clock speed

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

576

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12_1

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync