AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB, 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

5396 points

181% significantly better overall score

1919 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

142% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3950 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46328 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

49594 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43704 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

51251 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

90% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

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

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

22% slightly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

90% significantly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

90% significantly higher texture rate

160 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

90% significantly better floating point performance

5.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

Identical

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

215th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon R9 390 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 at 275 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the Radeon R9 390.