AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 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

70% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

107% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

67% significantly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 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

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

112% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

75 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

49.82 Gigapixels/s

0.57% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

167% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

167% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

79% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% 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

238th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2014 October

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 590 vs GeForce GTX 970M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 590 beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 590 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 590 over the GeForce GTX 970M.