AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 1300 MHz
  • 71.4x lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 12500 million
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
  • Around 73% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 6839 vs 3947
  • Around 73% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 6839 vs 3947
  • Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 20161 vs 10411
  • Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 20161 vs 10411
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 vs 19 March 2019
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Boost clock speed 1380 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 12500 million
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 vs 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 vs 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 vs 10411
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 vs 10411

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

  • Around 26% higher texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 198.7 GTexel/s
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 784 vs 675
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11300 vs 8525
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11925 vs 5140
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11925 vs 5140
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 249.6 GTexel/s vs 198.7 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 784 vs 675
PassMark - G3D Mark 11300 vs 8525
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11925 vs 5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11925 vs 5140

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
675
784
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8525
11300
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
3947
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
10411
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
10411
Name AMD Radeon RX 590 GME AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
PassMark - G2D Mark 675 784
PassMark - G3D Mark 8525 11300
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5140 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5140 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 10411
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 10411
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 999
Geekbench - OpenCL 53864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 135.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3063.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 883.876

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Vega 10 PRO
Code name Polaris 20 Greenland
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 19 March 2019
Place in performance rating 227 230
Type Desktop Desktop
GCN generation GCN 5.0

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz 1300 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 397.4 GFLOPS (1:16) 499.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS (1:1) 15.97 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS 7.987 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate 44.16 GPixel/s 83.20 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 198.7 GTexel/s 249.6 GTexel/s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 12500 million
Transistor count 5700 million
Pipelines 3072

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.1
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4 6.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 402.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR5 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)