AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2018
Mar 2010
Generation
Polaris
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1469 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
20
Shading Units
2304
1600
TMUs
144
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Cypress
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
228W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
5.0