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Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

The Radeon RX 560 uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which features core clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
Radeon RX 590 175 Watts
Difference: 95 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 590 should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 147456 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a lot (approximately 181%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 136336 (181%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 47008 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 28208 (150%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 560 Radeon RX 590
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year May 2017 November 2018
Code Name Baffin Polaris 30
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1175 MHz 1469 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 80 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 75200 Mtexels/sec 211536 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 18800 Mpixels/sec 47008 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 2304
Texture Mapping Units 64 144
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 12 nm
Transistors 3000 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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