AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Price

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$ 248.79

$ 381.20 significantly less expensive

$ 629.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2476 points

14353 points

479% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

336 FPS

284 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

169 FPS

131 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

245 FPS

192 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

136 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4636 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

192880 points

321% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

181592 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

1980 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2475 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

504.2 GB/s

96% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

25% slightly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

198 Gigapixels/s

299% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

554.4 Gigatexels/s

149% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

7168

211% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

224

55% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

181st of 597

22nd of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 4070 SUPER specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER has a slightly 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 GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER at 220 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER over the Radeon RX 590.