Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 Benchmark and Specs

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 has 36 execution units with 2304 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 7.12 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 8G G5 is equipped with 8 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The memory clock of the graphics card is 2.000 GHz and the speed is 8 Gbps.

Memory Size

8 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Clock

2.000 GHz

Memory Speed

8.0 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

Memory Interface

256 bit

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.469 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 1.545 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock

1.469 GHz

Boost Clock

1.545 GHz

Overclocking

Yes

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 225 W.

TDP

225 W

Tjunction max

98 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 are cooled by a Air cooling.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 95 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

2x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

2x DP 1.4

DVI

1

With the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 it is possible to operate a screen with a resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels. Furthermore, the DirectX standard version 12 is supported.

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

Non addressable LED

This area lists the video codecs that the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 can decode or encode in hardware in order to minimize the processor load, which leads to lower power consumption.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

Decode

VP9

Decode

AV1

No

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 260 mm long, 135 mm high and 43 mm wide.

Length

260 mm

Height

135 mm

Width

43 mm

Width (Slots)

3 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 was released in Q4/2018 at a price of 279 $. The graphics card manufactured in 14 nm is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3.0 x 16

Release date

Q4/2018

Launch Price

279 $

Structure size

14 nm

Part-no

11289-02

Documents

data sheet