Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon E8950

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2018 Sep 2015
Generation Polaris Embedded
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1469 MHz 735 MHz
Boost Clock 1545 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 256.0GB/s 192.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 32
Shading Units 2304 2048
TMUs 144 128
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 49.44 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 222.5 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 7.119 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 7.119 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 445.0 GFLOPS 256.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Polaris 30 Amethyst
GPU Variant Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006) E8950
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 3.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 5 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 366 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 95W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.4 6.3