Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX TITAN X

Radeon RX 590
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 590
GeForce GTX TITAN X
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX TITAN X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 590

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN X

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX TITAN X

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 590GeForce GTX TITAN X
GPU NamePolaris 30 (Polaris 30 XTX)vsGM200 (GM200-400-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders2304vs3072
Compute Units36vs24
Core clock1257 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs96
TMUs144vs192

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 590GeForce GTX TITAN X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs12288 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 590GeForce GTX TITAN X
TDP0 wattsvs250 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs17 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    49.44 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    222.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    192.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 590
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 590
    7119.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    6144.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better