AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2018
Jan 2012
Generation
Polaris
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1469 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
—
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
24
Shading Units
2304
1536
TMUs
144
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
2.842 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.