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 Sapphire Radeon VII is based on the GCN 5.1 architecture and is equipped with 60 execution units.
Memory
Memory
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
Sapphire Radeon VII
Memory Size
8 GB
16 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
1.000 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
2.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
1,024 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
4,096 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 Sapphire Radeon VII has a 16 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.000GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
Sapphire Radeon VII
Base Clock
1.469 GHz
1.400 GHz
Boost Clock
1.545 GHz
1.750 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 Sapphire Radeon VII is 1.750 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
Sapphire Radeon VII
TDP
225 W
300 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
99 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin
2 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 Sapphire Radeon VII is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 99 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
Sapphire Radeon VII
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 95 mm
3 x 75 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
32 dB
Noise (Load)
--
52 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 Sapphire Radeon VII is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
Sapphire Radeon VII
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
2x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.4a
DVI
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 Sapphire Radeon VII supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
Sapphire Radeon VII
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
Non addressable LED
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The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.
The Sapphire Radeon VII supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
Sapphire Radeon VII
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
Decode / Encode
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
Sapphire Radeon VII
Length
230 mm
268 mm
Height
125 mm
120 mm
Width
40 mm
42 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
Weight
--
1,280 g
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 Sapphire Radeon VII 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 Sapphire Radeon VII +101.9 %
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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