NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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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$ 365.00

$ 248.79

$ 116.21 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

98% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

49268 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

59450 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1545 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

175 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

123% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

24% slightly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs Radeon RX 590 benchmarks

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

The GeForce GTX 1080 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the Radeon RX 590.