Stream Processor and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

Stream Processor

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

R580

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

2006

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

594 MHz

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

384 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

165 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.504

222.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1296 MBps

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

41.47 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

2.1 (full) Shader Model

3.06.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync