AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 395.99
$ 1424.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4311 points
33119 points
668% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

89 FPS
787 FPS
698 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS
382 FPS
318 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
567 FPS
489 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
318 FPS
282 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7692 points
9236 points
20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

619.96 points
11723.75 points
1791% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65528 points
318192 points
385% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

77765 points
273214 points
251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz
2235 MHz
97% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz
2520 MHz
61% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
24 GiB
300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
384 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
1010 GB/s
200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
200% significantly lower TDP
450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.8 Gigapixels/s
483.8 Gigapixels/s
384% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.64 Gigatexels/s
1290 Gigatexels/s
474% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.19 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
1048% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
16384
611% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
512
255% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
192
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

116th of 586
2nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January
2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the Radeon RX 5600 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4090 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 GeForce RTX 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the Radeon RX 5600 XT.

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