AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

AMD Radeon RX 570

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 248.79

$ 213.30

$ 35.49 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

27% slightly better overall score

1929 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

40 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon RX 590 and the Radeon RX 570? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3841 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49268 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

40200 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

41087 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

42870 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

59450 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

45157 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41113 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47019 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

1244 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

150 W

16% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

39.81 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

159.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

39% slightly better floating point performance

5.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

12% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

214th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 570 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 590 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 570 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 590 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 Radeon RX 590 also has a slightly 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 Radeon RX 570 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 590 over the Radeon RX 570.