Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition Benchmark and Specs

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition has 2304 shaders and 36 execution units. The graphics card thus achieves a theoretical FP32 computing power of 7.19 TFLOPS.

Based on

AMD Radeon RX 590

GPU Chip

Polaris 30 XT (GCN 4)

Streaming Multiprocessors

36

Shader

2304

Render Output Units

32

Texture Units

144

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition can use 8 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The graphics card thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 269 GB/s on a 256 bit wide memory interface.

Memory Size

8 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Clock

2.100 GHz

Memory Speed

8.4 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

269 GB/s

Memory Interface

256 bit

The base clock frequency of the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition is 1.469 GHz. A high clock frequency (even in turbo mode) can greatly increase the speed of a graphics card.

Base Clock

1.469 GHz

Boost Clock

1.560 GHz+1 %

Overclocking

Yes

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition is 225 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

TDP

225 W

Tjunction max

98 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 95 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

2x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

2x DP 1.4

DVI

1

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition has a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels. The graphics card supports the DirectX 12 standard.

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

Non addressable LED

The video codecs accelerated in hardware by the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition reduce the processor load and ensure lower energy consumption.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

Decode

VP9

Decode

AV1

No

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition is 260 mm long and 135 mm high. With a width of 43 mm, the graphics card requires 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

Length

260 mm

Height

135 mm

Width

43 mm

Width (Slots)

3 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8GB AMD 50 Gold Edition made in 14 nm was published in Q4/2018 for 299 $.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3.0 x 16

Release date

Q4/2018

Launch Price

299 $

Structure size

14 nm

Part-no

11289-07

Documents

data sheet