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Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 Special Edition

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

Cores

2304

TMUs

144

ROPs

32

Memory Size

8 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Bus Width

256 bit

GPU

PCB Front

PCB Back

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Process Size

12 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Nov 15th, 2018

Generation

Polaris
(RX 500)

Production

Active

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

GPU Clock

1469 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz
1560 MHz (+1%)

Memory Clock

2000 MHz
2100 MHz (+5%)
8000 MHz effective
8400 MHz effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s
268.8 GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units

2304

TMUs

144

ROPs

32

Compute Units

36

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s
49.92 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s
224.6 GTexel/s

FP16 (half) performance

7.119 TFLOPS
7.188 TFLOPS (1:1)

FP32 (float) performance

7.119 TFLOPS
7.188 TFLOPS

FP64 (double) performance

445.0 GFLOPS
449.3 GFLOPS (1:16)

Board Design

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Length

9.5 inches
10.24 inches
241 mm
260 mm

TDP

175 W

Outputs

1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
1x DVI
2x HDMI
2x DisplayPort

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Board Number

C944-41

Graphics Features

DirectX

12.0 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2.0

Vulkan

1.1.101

Shader Model

6.0

Polaris 30 GPU Notes

Architecture Codename: Arctic Islands Codename: Ellesmere CLRX Version: GCN 1.2 Graphics/Compute: GFX8 (gfx803) Display Core Engine: 11.2 Unified Video Decoder: 6.3 Video Compression Engine: 3.4

Other retail boards based on this design (14)

Name	GPU Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock	Other Changes
ASRock Phantom Gaming X RX 590 OC	1469 MHz	1560 MHz	2000 MHz	10.98 inches/279 mm, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort
ASUS ROG STRIX RX 590 GAMING	1469 MHz	1545 MHz	2000 MHz	11.73 inches/298 mm, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort
GIGABYTE RX 590 GAMING	1469 MHz	1545 MHz	2000 MHz	1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
HIS RX 590 IceQ X2	1469 MHz	1545 MHz	2000 MHz	1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
HIS RX 590 IceQ X2 OC	1469 MHz	1545 MHz	2000 MHz	1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
MSI RX 590 ARMOR	1469 MHz	1545 MHz	2000 MHz	1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort
MSI RX 590 ARMOR OC	1469 MHz	1565 MHz	2000 MHz	1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort
PowerColor Red Devil RX 590 OC	1469 MHz	1576 MHz	2000 MHz	10.04 inches/255 mm, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590	1469 MHz	1560 MHz	2100 MHz	10.24 inches/260 mm, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 Special Edition	1469 MHz	1560 MHz	2100 MHz	10.24 inches/260 mm, 1x DVI 2x HDMI 2x DisplayPort
VisionTek RX 590 OC Limited Edition	1469 MHz	1580 MHz	2000 MHz	10.63 inches/270 mm, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
XFX RX 590 Fatboy	1469 MHz	1545 MHz	2000 MHz	10.63 inches/270 mm, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
XFX RX 590 Fatboy OC+	1469 MHz	1580 MHz	2000 MHz	10.63 inches/270 mm, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort
Yeston RX 590 Game Master	1469 MHz	1545 MHz	2000 MHz	11.89 inches/302 mm, 1x DVI 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort