- Graphics Processor: Polaris 30
- Cores: 2304
- TMUs / ROPs: 144 / 32
Expert Verdict
A budget AMD Radeon RX 590 graphics card with limited performance overall, higher power consumption. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks.
Review
Gaming
15
Workstation
25
AI/ML
17
Energy Efficiency
28
Quick Comparison Final Score
19
Pros
- Dedicated AI tensor cores
Cons
- Low energy efficiency
- Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
- No hardware ray tracing
- No DLSS upscaling support
- Older generation architecture
Compare Radeon RX 590 with other products
Full Specifications
Games
Performance
Forza Horizon 5
The Witcher 3
Counter-Strike 2
Far Cry 6
Hogwarts Legacy
Call of Duty
Ghost of Tsushima
Cyberpunk 2077
Tomb Raider
Average FPS
1080p High
1080p Ultra
1440p Ultra
4K Ultra
FPS Table
| 1080p High | 1080p Ultra | 1440p Ultra | 4K Ultra | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forza Horizon 5 | 42 | — | — | — |
| The Witcher 3 | 47 | — | — | — |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 64 | — | — | — |
| Far Cry 6 | 50 | — | — | — |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 29 | — | — | — |
| Call of Duty | 42 | — | — | — |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 25 | — | — | — |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 30 | — | — | — |
| Tomb Raider | 55 | — | — | — |
| Average FPS | 43 | — | — | — |
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High
57
1080p Ultra
43
1440p Ultra
28
4K Ultra
15
Margin of Error
Low
3D Mark
Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
| Steel Nomad Lite Score | 4611 |
|---|---|
| Time Spy | 4778 |
| Solar Bay | — |
| Port Royal | — |
| Fire Strike | 16527 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 9735 |
| Night Raid | 62048 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
| GB6 Compute Score | 45783 |
|---|---|
| Background Blur | 69 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 38.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.75 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.31 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.31 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 180.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 6238 FPS |
| API | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
Blender
Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
GeekBench 6 ML
Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
| GB6 ML Single Precision | 9064 |
|---|---|
| GB6 ML Half Precision | 9971 |
| GB6 ML Quantized | 6293 |
| Image Classification (SP) | 3307 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 4895 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 9072 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 12467 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 43468 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1547 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2504 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 3746 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 15075 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 96813 |
| Framework | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML |
General
| Vendor | Amd |
|---|---|
| Build | Discrete |
| Released | 15-Nov-18 |
| Case | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 |
| GPU Codename | Polaris 30 |
| Recommended CPU | -Intel Core i5 8500or above |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1469 MHz |
|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1545 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2304 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | — |
| Tensor Cores | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No |
| L1 Cache | 16KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 49 GPixel/s |
|---|---|
| Texture Fill Rate | 222 GTexel/s |
| FLOPS (FP32) | 7.1 TFLOPS |
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
|---|---|
| TGP | 175 W |
| Manufacturing | GlobalFoundries |
| Fabrication Process | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 5 billion |
| Transistor Density | 21.55 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | — |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR5 |
|---|
API
| DirectX | 12 |
|---|---|
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 |
| CUDA | — |
| Ray Tracing | No |
| DLSS | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a |
