Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
vs
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti


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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 2816 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.08 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.06 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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 GPU PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 2816
32 Render Output Units 96
144 Texture Units 176
0 Raytracing Cores 0

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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 337 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has a turbo clock of 1.545 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 1.076 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.000 GHz
1.545 GHz Boost Clock 1.076 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

225 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

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

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
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 No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

230 mm Length 267 mm
125 mm Height 111 mm
40 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

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

The PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti published in Q2/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

11289-06 Part-no GF980IGTX6GEPB / GF980IGTXBR6GEPB
Q4/2018 Release date Q2/2015
279 $ Launch Price 699 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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

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)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
8 GB GDDR5
32 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
8 GB GDDR5
64 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
8 GB GDDR5
90 fps (avg)

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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