Radeon HD 8590M vs RX Vega 10

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking675not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency30.59no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameRavenSun
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 January 2019 (5 years ago)1 March 2013 (11 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 cores640320
Core clock speed300 MHz750 MHz
Boost clock speed1301 MHz825 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattno data
Texture fill rate52.0416.50
Floating-point processing power1.665 TFLOPS0.528 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs4020

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1125 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data36 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2019 1 March 2013
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

RX Vega 10 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 10 and Radeon HD 8590M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 10 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 8590M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 10
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