AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 Vega 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2018 vs 24 March 2011
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

8x more pipelines: 1024 vs 128
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 394 vs 244
6.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3341 vs 506
3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11950 vs 3208

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1024 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	394 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark	3341 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	11950 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

394

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

3341

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3208

11950

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	394
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	3341
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208	11950
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		30.921
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1116.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		49.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		107.239
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3330
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3330
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GF110
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	24 March 2011
Place in performance rating	949	773
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$184
Value for money (0-100)		30.41
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	128	1024
Transistor count	4500 million	3,000 million
Core clock speed		1215 MHz
CUDA cores		1024
Floating-point performance		2x 1,244.2 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		97 °C
Texture fill rate		77.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		365 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.2
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)
SLI options		Quad
Supplementary power connectors		Two 8-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bandwidth		327.7 GB / s
Memory bus width		768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed		1707 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround