NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME, 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

8113 points

282% significantly better overall score

2123 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

154 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

1267% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48735 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40056 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

60508 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

1380 MHz

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

220 W

175 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

274% significantly higher pixel rate

44.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

198.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

219% significantly better floating point performance

6.36 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

155% significantly 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

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

200th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2020 March

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

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 590 GME comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 also 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 GME has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the Radeon RX 590 GME.