AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 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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$ 4438.00

$ 248.79

$ 4189.21 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

2466 points

34% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

52 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

38 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

52 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

20 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

4729 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

38292 points

49268 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

52086 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

48483 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41978 points

59450 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

45746 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

55240 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

1545 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

1545 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s

256 GB/s

21% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

45% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s

49.54 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

44% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2304

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 590 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 590 beats the Radeon RX 470 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 590 has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 590 also 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 470 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 590 is faster than the Radeon RX 470.