AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2018
Dec 2016
Generation
Polaris
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1469 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
64
Shading Units
2304
4096
TMUs
144
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Fiji
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Fiji XT CA(215-0862120)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
596 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
175W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.4
6.5