AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 4 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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$ 149.39

$ 99.40 significantly less expensive

$ 248.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

825 points

2466 points

198% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

52 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

38 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

52 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

20 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1833 points

4729 points

157% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

21032 points

49268 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21086 points

52086 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19493 points

48483 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23476 points

59450 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20226 points

45746 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23100 points

55240 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1175 MHz

1545 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1275 MHz

1545 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

256 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

118% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s

49.54 Gigapixels/s

142% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

172% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.61 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

172% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2304

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% 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

275th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 560 vs Radeon RX 590 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 590 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly 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 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 590 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 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 Radeon RX 590 is better than the Radeon RX 560.