NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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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$ 633.11

$ 248.79

$ 384.32 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

10078 points

308% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

217 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

153 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

153 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

115 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14639 points

209% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145322 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

132328 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145114 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

134471 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1350 MHz

1545 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

Identical

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

616 GB/s

140% 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

136 Gigapixels/s

174% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

420.2 Gigatexels/s

88% significantly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.45 TFLOPS

88% significantly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4352

88% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

88% 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

37th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs Radeon RX 590 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti beats the Radeon RX 590 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 590 has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has slightly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 RTX 2080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 590.