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AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon RX 590 is a Desktop video accelerator from AMD. It began to be released in November 2018. The GPU has a boost frequency of 1545MHz. It also has a memory frequency of 2000MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

Top Desktop GPU: 183

Basic

Label Name
AMD
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
November 2018
Model Name
Radeon RX 590
Generation
Polaris
Base Clock
1469MHz
Boost Clock
1545MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
2304
Transistors
5,700 million
Compute Units
36
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
144
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2MB
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
12 nm
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TDP
175W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
256bit
Memory Clock
2000MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
256.0 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
222.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
7.119 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
445.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
6.976 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.2
OpenCL Version
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (12_0)
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
32
Shader Model
6.4
Suggested PSU
450W

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

24 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

45 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

70 Fps

Battlefield 5 2160p

38 Fps

Battlefield 5 1440p

73 Fps

Battlefield 5 1080p

103 Fps

GTA 5 2160p

43 Fps

GTA 5 1440p

68 Fps

GTA 5 1080p

112 Fps

FP32 (float)

6.976 TFlops

3DMark Time Spy

4864

Compared to Other GPU

4%
12%
62%
Better then 4% GPU over the past year
Better then 12% GPU over the past 3 years
Better then 62% GPU

SiliconCat Rating

183
Ranks 183 among Desktop GPU on our website
378
Ranks 378 among all GPU on our website
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
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24 Fps
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
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75 Fps
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54 Fps
Radeon RX 590
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45 Fps
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
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109 Fps
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Radeon RX 590
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70 Fps
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12 Fps
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58 Fps
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47 Fps
Radeon RX 590
AMD, November 2018
38 Fps
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26 Fps
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1 Fps
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109 Fps
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Radeon RX 590
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73 Fps
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50 Fps
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17 Fps
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160 Fps
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Radeon RX 590
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103 Fps
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92 Fps
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69 Fps
GeForce GTX 1080
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55 Fps
Radeon RX 590
AMD, November 2018
43 Fps
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
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153 Fps
GeForce RTX 3070
NVIDIA, September 2020
103 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060
NVIDIA, January 2021
82 Fps
Radeon RX 590
AMD, November 2018
68 Fps
GeForce GTX 1650
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29 Fps
GTA 5 1080p
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213 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
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175 Fps
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
NVIDIA, March 2017
157 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060
NVIDIA, January 2021
136 Fps
Radeon RX 590
AMD, November 2018
112 Fps
FP32 (float)
Quadro P5200 Max Q
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7.715 TFlops
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AMD, January 2020
7.332 TFlops
Radeon RX 590
AMD, November 2018
6.976 TFlops
6.662 TFlops
P104 100
NVIDIA, December 2017
6.521 TFlops
3DMark Time Spy
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9088
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7045
Radeon RX 590
AMD, November 2018
4864
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2371