Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
vs
ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.55 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.12 TFLOPS.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC has 5120 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 23.96 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 80 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 GPU ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip Navi 21
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
2304 Shader 5120
32 Render Output Units 128
144 Texture Units 320
0 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has a turbo clock of 1.545 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC is 2.340 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.925 GHz
1.545 GHz Boost Clock 2.340 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.11 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC is equipped with a 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

225 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) 345 W
98 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

230 mm Length 330 mm
125 mm Height 140 mm
40 mm Width 56 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1784 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 was released in Q4/2018.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC published in Q4/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

11289-06 Part-no RX6900XT PGD 16GO
Q4/2018 Release date Q4/2020
279 $ Launch Price 999 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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