NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 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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$ 868.99

$ 248.79

$ 620.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points

474% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS

291 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS

131 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS

115 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points

315% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

209081 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131975 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points

319% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz

1545 MHz

12% 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

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

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

912.4 GB/s

256% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

175 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s

276% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s

139% significantly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS

378% significantly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

344% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

122% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 590 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 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 3080 Ti over the Radeon RX 590.