AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 248.79
$ 21.17 slightly less expensive
$ 269.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points
49% significantly better overall score
1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49268 points
345% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
11048 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
17636 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
22673 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

59450 points
649% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
7932 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
23863 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz
93% significantly higher core clock speed
797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz
71% significantly higher boost clock speed
902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
12 GiB
49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s
288.4 GB/s
12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W
28% slightly lower TDP
225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s
54.12 Gigapixels/s
9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s
2% slightly higher texture rate
216.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS
37% slightly better floating point performance
5.20 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
2880
25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
240
66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
48
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586
229th 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
2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

Radeon RX 590 vs Quadro K6000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 590 GPU is faster than the Quadro K6000 in gaming.

Our database shows that 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. 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 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 Radeon RX 590 over the Quadro K6000.

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