Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce RTX 5070 benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 590 beats the GeForce RTX 5070 in gaming performance.
In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 590 is better than the GeForce RTX 5070.
AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?
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Price
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$ 318.20
significantly less expensive
Benchmark Score
Overall Score
General gaming and workstation score
430%
significantly better overall score
Flux Core frame rate
Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes
254 FPS
significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
Electron frame rate
Randomly generated noise sphere test
118 FPS
significantly higher Electron frame rate
City frame rate
Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering
176 FPS
significantly higher City frame rate
Clouds frame rate
Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test
104 FPS
significantly higher Clouds frame rate
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Other Benchmarks
3DMark Graphics score
High-end graphics benchmark
11%
slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
OpenCL compute benchmark
312%
significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
Vulkan compute benchmark
227%
significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
Specifications
Core Clock Speed
Nominal chip frequency
50%
significantly higher core clock speed
Boost Clock Speed
Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met
62%
significantly higher boost clock speed
Memory Bus Width
Number of parallel lines to the memory chips
33%
slightly larger memory bus width
Memory Bandwidth
Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory
162%
significantly higher memory bandwidth
TDP
Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU
42%
much lower TDP
Pixel Rate
Number of pixels that can be rendered per second
305%
significantly higher pixel rate
Texture Rate
Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second
116%
significantly higher texture rate
Shading Units
Number of processors dedicated to shader processing
166%
significantly more shading units
Texture Mapping Units
Number of processors dedicated to applying textures
33%
slightly 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
179th
of 586
28th
of 586
Family
The product line
Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date
The official date of release of this chip
2018 November
2025 March
Memory Type
The type of memory used by this chip
GDDR5
GDDR7
DirectX Support
Maximum version of DirectX supported
12.0
12.0
OpenGL Support
Maximum version of OpenGL supported
4.5
4.6
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