AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 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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$ 488.33

$ 248.79

$ 239.54 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

118% significantly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

102% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

49268 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

59450 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1545 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

1545 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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

175 W

28% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

222.48 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

37% slightly better floating point performance

7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

11% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

144

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

93rd of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2018 November

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 RX 590 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT also has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 590 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 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 5700 XT is better than the Radeon RX 590.