AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1469 MHz vs 1406 MHz
518.2x more texture fill rate: 222.48 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 225 Watt
4.2x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Launch date	15 November 2018 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed	1469 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Texture fill rate	222.48 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1677 MHz vs 1545 MHz
1934.9x better floating-point performance: 13,738 gflops vs 7.1 TFLOPs
Around 63% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 7765 vs 4761

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1677 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Floating-point performance	13,738 gflops vs 7.1 TFLOPs
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7765 vs 4761

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4761

7765

Name	AMD Radeon RX 590	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
PassMark - G3D Mark	9442
PassMark - G2D Mark	794
Geekbench - OpenCL	46551
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4761	7765

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 590	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Polaris 30	Vega 10
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date	15 November 2018	8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$279
Place in performance rating	259	257
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz	1677 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1469 MHz	1406 MHz
Floating-point performance	7.1 TFLOPs	13,738 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pixel fill rate	49.54 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	222.48 GTexel/s	429.3 GTexel / s
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million
Pipelines		4096
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	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	HBM2
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support