Radeon RX 5900 and Arctic Sound-M - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5900

Arctic Sound-M

Architecture

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

Generation 12.5 (2021−2022)

GPU code name

Navi 21

Arctic Sound

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1635 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

10 nm

Number of transistors

21,000 million

8,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

8192

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

418.6

230.4

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

N/A