AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3 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

2466 points

3% slightly better overall score

2374 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

51 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

27 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3376 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49268 points

298% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

12375 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25535 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

27453 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

59450 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

18144 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28485 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27238 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

76% significantly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

66% significantly higher boost clock speed

928 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

42% much lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

55.68 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

0.10% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

33% slightly better floating point performance

5.34 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2880

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

240

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

186th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

Our database shows that 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 significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 590 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 590 has a much lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 590.