AMD Radeon RX 590 (Desktop)

The AMD Radeon RX 590 is a desktop graphics card positioned in the mid-range of 2018. It is manufactured in 12nm and offers 2,304 shader cores and 8 GB GDDR5 VRAM using a 256 Bit memory interface (8 GHz, 256 GB/s).

The RX590 uses the new Polaris 30 chip, which is a 12nm version of the Polaris 20 chip of the RX 580. Thanks to the improved process, the clock rates of the RX 590 can be higher at a similar power consumption.

This leads to a 10 percent higher performance compared against the older Radeon RX 580 and therefore the RX 590 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060. This means that the card is best suited for 1080p gaming in max. details (of 2018 games).

The power consumption is rated at 175 Watt and therefore 10 Watts below the Radeon RX 580 (185 Watt).

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 590	2304 @ 1469 - 1545 (Boost) MHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Radeon RX 580 (compare)	2304 @ 1257 - 1340 (Boost) MHz	256 Bit @ 8000 MHz
Radeon RX 570 (compare)	2048 @ 1168 - 1244 (Boost) MHz	256 Bit @ 7000 MHz
Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) (compare)	2304 @ 1077 MHz
Radeon RX 570 (Laptop) (compare)	2048 @ 926 - 1206 (Boost) MHz	256 Bit @ 7000 MHz
Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) (compare)	1024 @ 1172 - 1275 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 560 (Laptop) (compare)	1024 @ 1090 - 1292 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 550 (Laptop) (compare)	640 @ 1287 - 1476 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 540X (compare)	512 @ 1219 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Radeon RX 540 (compare)	512 @ 1219 (Boost) MHz	128 Bit @ 6000 MHz

Codename

Polaris 30

Architecture

Polaris

Pipelines

2304 - unified

Core Speed

1469 - 1545 (Boost) MHz

Memory Speed

8000 MHz

Memory Bus Width

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Max. Amount of Memory

8192 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 12

Transistor Count

5700 Million

technology

12 nm

Features

DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready, HDMI 2.0b, AMD FreeSync

Date of Announcement

15.11.2018

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy

55.7 pt (57%)

3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

5190 Points (35%)

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

4863 Points (33%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

379940 Points (71%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

307763 Points (42%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

41952 Points (63%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

87448 Points (45%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

14101 Points (48%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

16746 Points (41%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

346586 Points (46%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

19287 points (50%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

23202 points (45%)

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3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

130629 Points (68%)

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3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

43361 Points (82%)

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080

57.3 fps (34%)

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SPECviewperf 12
Solidworks (sw-03) 1900x1060 +

Siemens NX (snx-02) 1900x1060 +

Showcase (showcase-01) 1900x1060 +

Medical (medical-01) 1900x1060 +

Maya (maya-04) 1900x1060 +

Energy (energy-01) 1900x1060 +

Creo (creo-01) 1900x1060 +

Catia (catia-04) 1900x1060 +

3ds Max (3dsmax-05) 1900x1060 +

SPECviewperf 13 Solidworks (sw-04) +

Siemens NX (snx-03) +

Showcase (showcase-02) +

Medical (medical-02) +

3ds Max (3dsmax-06) +

LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

1996 Samples/s (38%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

4084 Samples/s (38%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

11791 Points (42%)

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Power Consumption - FurMark 1.19 GPU Stress Test - Power Consumption (external Monitor) 1280x720 *

min: 357.5 avg: 365 median: 364.6 (83%) max: 371.7 Watt

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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra 1920x1080 *

min: 346.9 avg: 353 median: 352.9 (76%) max: 358.9 Watt

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.