AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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

1919 points
8206 points
327% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
192 FPS
148 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
95 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS
139 FPS
100 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
75 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3950 points
25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3149 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43704 points
126840 points
190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51251 points
120026 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz
2280 MHz
128% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz
2497 MHz
149% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s
448 GB/s
16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W
145 W
89% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s
119.9 Gigapixels/s
87% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

160 Gigatexels/s
299.6 Gigatexels/s
87% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
3840
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
33% slightly more texture mapping units
120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
33% slightly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 586
51st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon R9 390 vs GeForce RTX 5060 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 beats the Radeon R9 390 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 is better than the Radeon R9 390.

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