Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Raven
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2018
November 2018
Interface
IGP
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
4,940 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
35.20
222.5
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
8 GB
Memory bus width
System Shared
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+