AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and AMD Radeon RX 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

AMD Radeon RX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1545 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 15 November 2018
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 12 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

Around 1% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1081 vs 1069
4.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 45591 vs 11203

Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1081 vs 1069
Geekbench - OpenCL	45591 vs 11203

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

1081

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

45591

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon RX 590
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	1081
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	45591
PassMark - G3D Mark		9374
PassMark - G2D Mark		789
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon RX 590
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 4.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Polaris 30
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	15 November 2018
Place in performance rating	1317	280
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 nm
Pipelines	448
Compute units		36
Core clock speed		1469 MHz
Floating-point performance		7.1 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		49.54 GP/s
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture fill rate		222.48 GTexel/s
Texture Units		144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		175 Watt
Transistor count		5,700 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		256 GB/s
Memory bus width		256 bit
Memory clock speed		8000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support