AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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 - Video Composition (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 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1156 MHz
  • Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 210 Watt
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 84% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 6839 vs 3717
  • Around 84% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 6839 vs 3717
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 20161 vs 3361
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 20161 vs 3361
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 vs 14 August 2017
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 210 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 vs 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 vs 3361

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

  • Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1471 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 330.00 GTexel/s vs 198.7 GTexel/s
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 774 vs 660
  • Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13296 vs 8573
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14462 vs 5140
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14462 vs 5140
  • Around 55% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 6875 vs 4431
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1471 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Texture fill rate 330.00 GTexel/s vs 198.7 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 774 vs 660
PassMark - G3D Mark 13296 vs 8573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14462 vs 5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14462 vs 5140
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6875 vs 4431

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
660
774
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8573
13296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4431
6875
Name AMD Radeon RX 590 GME AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
PassMark - G2D Mark 660 774
PassMark - G3D Mark 8573 13296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5140 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5140 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4431 6875
Geekbench - OpenCL 163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1022.925

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Polaris 20 Vega 10
Design Radeon RX 500 Series Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 14 August 2017
Place in performance rating 206 211
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $399

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz 1471 MHz
Compute units 36 56
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS (1:1) 21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS 10.5 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 44.16 GPixel/s 94.00 GP/s
Render output units 32 64
Stream Processors 2304 3584
Texture fill rate 198.7 GTexel/s 330.00 GTexel/s
Texture Units 144 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 210 Watt
Transistor count 5700 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 10.5 TFLOPs
Pipelines 3584

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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) 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenCL 2.0 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 410 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 HBM2

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore