Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon RX 590 GME
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Vega
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
March 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1420 MHz
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
204.5
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.3