NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 590

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 248.79

$ 150.21 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

153% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

109% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

49268 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

59450 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1545 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

37% slightly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

89% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

175 W

42% much lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

180% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

59% significantly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

55% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

55% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 590 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has slightly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a much lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is faster than the Radeon RX 590.