Radeon X1800 XT and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

Radeon X1800 XT

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

R500 (2005−2007)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

R520

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2005

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

321 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

113 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.600

222.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

44.8 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync