NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded and AMD Radeon RX 590 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, 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.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

AMD Radeon RX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 175 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 175 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

3.4x more core clock speed: 1469 MHz vs 435 MHz
Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1335 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 222.48 GTexel/s vs 85.44 GTexel/s
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
5.8x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 789 vs 427
Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9379 vs 6698
Around 15% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 45600 vs 39778

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1469 MHz vs 435 MHz
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Texture fill rate	222.48 GTexel/s vs 85.44 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	789 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark	9379 vs 6698
Geekbench - OpenCL	45600 vs 39778

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

427

789

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6698

9379

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

39778

45600

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded	AMD Radeon RX 590
PassMark - G2D Mark	427	789
PassMark - G3D Mark	6698	9379
Geekbench - OpenCL	39778	45600
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		1080

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded	AMD Radeon RX 590
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA107S	Polaris 30
Place in performance rating	280	282
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date		15 November 2018
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1335 MHz	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	435 MHz	1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	85.44 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	5.468 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.468 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048
Pixel fill rate	64.08 GPixel/s	49.54 GP/s
Texture fill rate	85.44 GTexel/s	222.48 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	175 Watt
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		7.1 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Transistor count		5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Length		241 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	88.00 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support