AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2018
Mar 2013
Generation
Polaris
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1469 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
36
28
Shading Units
2304
1792
TMUs
144
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
89.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
2.867 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Polaris 30
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
175W
200W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1