AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 7900

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900, 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
109% significantly better overall score
1178 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
23 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
32996 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
33694 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
31425 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
32351 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586
252nd 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
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon HD 7900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 590 beats the Radeon HD 7900 in gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 590 is faster than the Radeon HD 7900.

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