amd

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2560

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

$399 Jul 2019 View Details

amd

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

2304

Cores

256 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 590

$279 Nov 2018 View Details

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

8GB GDDR6 225W $399 Jul 2019

Radeon RX 5700 XT

$399 • Jul 2019

Radeon RX 590

$279 • Nov 2018

AMD Radeon RX 590

8GB GDDR5 175W $279 Nov 2018

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT	AMD Radeon RX 590
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR5
TDP	225 W	175 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1905 MHz	1545 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/s	256 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	12nm
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 4.0
Shading Units	2560	2304
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	160	144
ROPs	64	32
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1750 MHz	2000 MHz
Pixel Rate	121.9 GPixel/s	49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	448 GTexel/s	256 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	9.754 GFLOPS	7.119 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	251 mm²	232 mm²
Transistors	10300 Million	5700 Million
Required PSU	550 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	GlobalFoundries

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

8594 (+86%)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

4611

AMD Radeon RX 590

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

81739 (+79%)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

45783

AMD Radeon RX 590

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

117.9 FPS (+93%)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

61.2 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 590

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

16398 (+75%)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

9375

AMD Radeon RX 590

Game Benchmarks Comparison (231 benchmarks)

ICARUS

7.7 2021 • Action, Adventure, Simulation • RocketWerkz

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+79%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+84%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 19 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+143%)

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 7 FPS

MIN 5 FPS

Winner

Loser

Chorus

8.9 2021 • Action, Adventure • Deep Silver Fishlabs

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+88%)

AVG 201 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+79%)

AVG 120 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+123%)

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

8 2021 • Action, Adventure • Frogwares

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+80%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+74%)

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+80%)

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Jurassic World Evolution 2

8 2021 • Simulation, Strategy • Frontier Developments

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+63%)

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+76%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+263%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 8 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

Winner

Loser

King's Bounty II

8 2021 • Adventure, RPG, Strategy • Fulqrum Games

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+67%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+70%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+79%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

HUMANKIND

8.3 2021 • Strategy • AMPLITUDE Studios

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+60%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+56%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+43%)

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

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