Arc A350 vs Radeon RX 590

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking229not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.04no data
Power efficiency9.55no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code namePolaris 30DG2-128
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 November 2018 (6 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

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 cores2304768
Core clock speed1469 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate222.596.00
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS3.072 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs14448
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data6

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 4.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1937 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s124.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
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_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 25 Watt

RX 590 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Arc A350, on the other hand, has a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 600% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 590 and Arc A350. We've got no test results to judge.


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