AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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.

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 36% higher boost clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 1018 MHz
91.2x more texture fill rate: 198.7 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	9 Mar 2020 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1380 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 657
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8621 vs 8560

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	768 vs 657
PassMark - G3D Mark	8621 vs 8560

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

657

768

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8560

8621

Name	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	657	768
PassMark - G3D Mark	8560	8621
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	20161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	20161
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4432	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Polaris 20	Vesuvius
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	9 Mar 2020	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	206	174
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1380 MHz	1018 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate	44.16 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304	5632
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	5700 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Pipelines		2x 2816
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm (9.5 inches)	307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)