Riva TNT and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

Riva TNT

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

NV4

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 1998

November 2018

Interface

AGP 2x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

90 MHz

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

350 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

7 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

-

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.18

222.5

Memory type

SDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

16 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

110 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1.76 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

5.0

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync

-

+