Radeon RX 590

Radeon RX 590
  • Graphics Processor: Polaris 30
  • Cores: 2304
  • TMUs / ROPs: 144 / 32

Review

Gaming
16
Workstation
25
AI/ML
17
Energy Efficiency
28
NanoReview Final Score
19
Compare Radeon RX 590 with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
80
42
33
20
The Witcher 3
58
46
29
15
Counter-Strike 2
92
66
42
20
Far Cry 6
61
53
38
19
Hogwarts Legacy
37
29
22
10
CoD: Modern Warfare III
51
43
31
16
Ghost of Tsushima
36
26
18
9
Cyberpunk 2077
33
33
18
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
65
56
35
16
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 57
1080p Ultra 44
1440p Ultra 30
4K Ultra 15
Margin of Error Low

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
4613
Time Spy 4778
Fire Strike 16527
Wild Life Extreme 9737
Night Raid 62043
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
45783
Background Blur 69 img/sec
Face Detection 38.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.75 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.31 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.31 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.38 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 180.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6238 FPS
API OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
9277
G2D Mark 789
DirectX 11 65 FPS
DirectX 12 45 FPS
GPU Compute 3732 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 4365 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
487.92
Sources: Blender [9] – 1 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
9064
GB6 ML Half Precision
9971
GB6 ML Quantized
6293
Image Classification (SP) 3307
Image Segmentation (HP) 4895
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9072
Face Detection (HP) 12467
Pose Estimation (Q) 43468
Text Classification (SP) 1547
Machine Translation (HP) 2504
Object Detection (SP) 3746
Depth Estimation (Q) 15075
Style Transfer (SP) 96813
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the Radeon RX 590

General

Vendor Amd
Build Discrete
Released November 15, 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Case Desktop
Purpose Gaming
Segment High-end
Architecture GCN 4.0
GPU Codename Polaris 30
Nvidia Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8500 or above
Desktop GPU rating - 80th place

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1469 MHz
Boost Clock 1545 MHz
Shading Units 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32
Tensor Cores No
Ray-tracing Cores No
L1 Cache 16KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 49 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 222 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
7.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 175 W
Manufacturing GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Process 12 nm
Die Size 232 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion
Transistor Density 21.55 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit
ECC No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12
Vulkan 1.3
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 2.1
Ray Tracing No
DLSS No
DisplayPort 1.4a

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