Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
vs
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE


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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.20 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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 GPU Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 1
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 1408
32 Render Output Units 32
144 Texture Units 88
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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has a turbo clock of 1.545 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE is 1.845 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.545 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.74 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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

225 W TDP 135 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 95 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 41 dB

Connectivity

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

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE 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 2x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
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 No
Decode VP8 Decode
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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

230 mm Length 257 mm
125 mm Height 133 mm
40 mm Width 44 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

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

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G SE published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

11289-06 Part-no 11295-05-20G
Q4/2018 Release date Q3/2019
279 $ Launch Price 169 $ (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

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.

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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