AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

3792 points

53% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

82 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

52 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

58 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

39 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

68305 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

50239 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

68305 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

50377 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

157% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

1215 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 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

288 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

60 W

191% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

77.76 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

52% significantly higher texture rate

145.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

52% significantly better floating point performance

4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

20% slightly more shading units

1920

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

128th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2019 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 Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 590 in gaming performance.

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 slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 590 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 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 Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 590.