Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
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Sapphire Radeon VII

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 Radeon VII has 3840 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.75 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 13.07 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Sapphire Radeon VII published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.