NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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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$ 367.70

$ 248.79

$ 118.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

187% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

132% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

1545 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

10% 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

448 GB/s

75% 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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

120% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

27% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

27% 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

67th 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 vs Radeon RX 590 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 in gaming.

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 RTX 2080 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 over the Radeon RX 590.