Radeon RX 590 vs P104-101

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated227
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data25.51
Power efficiencyno data9.67
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGP104Polaris 30
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date5 January 2018 (6 years ago)15 November 2018 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$279

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25602304
Core clock speed1506 MHz1469 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rate269.3222.5
Floating-point processing power8.617 TFLOPS7.119 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs160144

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5XGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1251 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.3 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2018 15 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm

RX 590 has an age advantage of 10 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between P104-101 and Radeon RX 590. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that P104-101 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 590 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA P104-101
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