Radeon RX 590 vs RX 490M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated229
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data25.07
Power efficiencyno data9.55
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePolarisPolaris 30
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2016 (8 years ago)15 November 2018 (6 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 coresno data2304
Core clock speedno data1469 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data222.5
Floating-point processing powerno data7.119 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data144

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 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 data1x 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.

DirectX1212 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2016 15 November 2018
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

RX 590 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 490M and Radeon RX 590. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 490M is a notebook card while Radeon RX 590 is a desktop one.


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