Graphics card comparison
Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 590
AMD
Radeon Vega 8
0 Mb System Shared
Released 13 Feb 2018
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 590
1536 Mb GDDR5
Released 24 Mar 2011
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Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon Vega 8
- 300 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 590 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports FreeSync
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports TrueAudio
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 590
- Supports PhysX
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon Vega 8 | GeForce GTX 590 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Raven Ridge () | GF110 (GF110-351-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 210 mm² | 520 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,940 million | 3,000 million |
| Shaders | 512 | 512 |
| Compute Units | 8 | 16 |
| Core clock | 300 MHz | 608 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 48 |
| TMUs | 32 | 64 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon Vega 8 | GeForce GTX 590 |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | 384 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | 854 MHz
3416 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon Vega 8 | GeForce GTX 590 |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | 365 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Feb 2018 | 24 Mar 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon Vega 817.60 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 59039.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon Vega 835.20 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 59077.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon Vega 80.00 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 590328.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon Vega 81126.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 5902488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better