Xbox Series S GPU 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)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 30Lockhart
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 November 2018 (6 years ago)10 November 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 $299

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 cores23041280
Core clock speed1469 MHz1565 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate222.5125.2
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS4.006 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs14480

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 x16IGP
Length241 mm274 mm
Width2-slotIGP
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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s224.0 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 DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1
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 Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 November 2018 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 100 Watt

Xbox Series S GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, a 71.4% more advanced lithography process, and 75% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 590 and Xbox Series S GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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