AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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

1% slightly better overall score

1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

49 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43704 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40962 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51251 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1537 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

700% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

30% slightly higher pixel rate

49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

160 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

25% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 586

216th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 390 vs RTX A500 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R9 390 graphics card is better than the RTX A500 Laptop in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon R9 390 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 RTX A500 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 390 over the RTX A500 Laptop.