NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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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$ 749.99

$ 248.79

$ 501.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

370% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

229 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

272% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

278% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

1545 MHz

7% 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

10 GiB

25% slightly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

196% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

175 W

82% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

231% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

109% significantly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

318% significantly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

277% 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

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 vs Radeon RX 590 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the Radeon RX 590 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3080 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, the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 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 significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 over the Radeon RX 590.