NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3839 points

55% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

Identical

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

49268 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

52086 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

59450 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

45746 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

55240 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1545 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1545 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

31% slightly 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

103.3 Gigapixels/s

108% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

22% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

22% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 590 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 590 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 590 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 590 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a much lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 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 980 Ti over the Radeon RX 590.