NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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

33119 points

1460% significantly better overall score

2123 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

787 FPS

744 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS

350 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

567 FPS

521 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS

301 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points

825% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

998 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points

694% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40056 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points

351% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

60508 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2235 MHz

77% significantly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz

82% significantly higher boost clock speed

1380 MHz

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

1010 GB/s

294% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W

175 W

157% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s

995% significantly higher pixel rate

44.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

1290 Gigatexels/s

549% significantly higher texture rate

198.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

82.58 TFLOPS

1198% significantly better floating point performance

6.36 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

16384

611% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

255% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 586

201st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

2020 March

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

GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 590 GME comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the Radeon RX 590 GME in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 GME has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME.