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 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.
Memory
Memory
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory Size
8 GB
6 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
337 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
384 bit
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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.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Base Clock
1.469 GHz
1.000 GHz
Boost Clock
1.545 GHz
1.076 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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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.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP
225 W
250 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
91 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
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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.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Fan-Type
Axial
Radial
Fan 1
2 x 95 mm
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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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.
Connectivity
Connectivity
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
2x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.2
DVI
1
1
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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.
Featureset
Featureset
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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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.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
No
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
No
AV1
No
No
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Length
230 mm
267 mm
Height
125 mm
111 mm
Width
40 mm
38 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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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.
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 PNY GeForce GTX 980 Ti +11.4 %
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.
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.
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