AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 248.79

$ 91.00 significantly less expensive

$ 339.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

6694 points

171% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

161 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

77 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

113 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

61 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

104% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

101567 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

99687 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

1925 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2075 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

288 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

14% slightly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

168% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

71% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

243% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5888

155% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

184

27% slightly more texture mapping units

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

179th of 586

73rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2023 May

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 4060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 beats the Radeon RX 590 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4060 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 GeForce RTX 4060 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the Radeon RX 590.