Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
vs
ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB


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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB has 768 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.32 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 3.57 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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 12 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 GPU ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6400
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip Navi 24 XL
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 12
2304 Shader 768
32 Render Output Units 32
144 Texture Units 48
0 Raytracing Cores 12

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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 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 128 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 64 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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB is 2.321 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.923 GHz
1.545 GHz Boost Clock 2.321 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.04 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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

225 W TDP 53 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 2
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x 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 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB 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 No LED lighting

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 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

230 mm Length 162 mm
125 mm Height 112 mm
40 mm Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 275 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 4

Additional data

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

The ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX 4GB published in Q2/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 6 nanometers.

11289-06 Part-no RX6400 CLI 4G
Q4/2018 Release date Q2/2022
279 $ Launch Price 159 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 6 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)

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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