AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

4534 points

83% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

112 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

57 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

78 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

44 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

92420 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

71210 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

84300 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

82804 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

71% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

1703 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 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

336 GB/s

31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

80 W

118% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

53% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3840

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

20% slightly more texture mapping units

120

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

111th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 590 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 590 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 590.