AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2021
Mar 2020
Generation
Navi II
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
2321 MHz
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
2581 MHz
1420 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
256.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
40
36
Shading Units
2560
2304
TMUs
160
144
ROPs
64
32
RT Cores
40
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L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB
L3 Cache
96 MB
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Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
165.2 GPixel/s
45.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
413.0 GTexel/s
204.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
26.43 TFLOPS
6.543 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
6.543 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
825.9 GFLOPS
409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Navi 22
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
Navi 22 XT(215-127000006)
Polaris 20 XTR(215-0910066)
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
7 nm
14 nm
Transistors
17.2 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
335 mm²
232 mm²

Board Design

TDP
230W
175W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.7