Radeon RX 590 GME vs RX 5800 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 23Polaris 20
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data9 March 2020 (4 years ago)

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 cores33282304
Core clock speedno data1257 MHz
Boost clock speed1775 MHz1420 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate369.2204.5
Floating-point processing power11.81 TFLOPS6.543 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs208144

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 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s256.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 175 Watt

RX 5800 XT has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

RX 590 GME, on the other hand, has 57.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5800 XT and Radeon RX 590 GME. We've got no test results to judge.


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