AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Nov 2018
Generation
Navi IV
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1469 MHz
Boost Clock
3130 MHz
1545 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
36
SM Count
132
-
Shading Units
2048
2304
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
528
-
RT Cores
32
-
L1 Cache
256 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
L3 Cache
32 MB
-
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
200.3 GPixel/s
49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
400.6 GTexel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
51.28 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
25.64 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
801.3 GFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 44
Polaris 30
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT(215-176400102)
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
4 nm
12 nm
Transistors
29.7 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
199 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
175W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b2x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
9.0
-
Shader Model
6.8
6.4