NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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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$ 366.59

$ 248.79

$ 117.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

176% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

115 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

147% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1545 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

7% 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

200 W

175 W

14% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

168% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

127% significantly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

111% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

5% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

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 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 590 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the Radeon RX 590 in gaming performance.

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 3060 Ti has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 590.