NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 560

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 149.39

$ 1400.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

1595% significantly better overall score

825 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

314 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

223 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

987% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

4374% significantly higher Blender score

130.09 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

871% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

612% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19493 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

861% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20226 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

678% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23100 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1175 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1275 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

735% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

80 W

337% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

830% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

581% significantly higher texture rate

81.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

1262% significantly better floating point performance

2.61 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

924% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

412% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

599% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

275th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2017 April

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 3090 vs Radeon RX 560 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the Radeon RX 560.