Radeon RX 5900 XT and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5900 XT

Radeon RX 590 GME

Architecture

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Navi 21

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1735 MHz

1420 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

21,000 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4352

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

471.9

204.5

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3