AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME, 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

16% slightly better overall score

2123 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

373% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48735 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40056 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

60508 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1380 MHz

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

Identical

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

Identical

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

44.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

198.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

6.36 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

Identical

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

Identical

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

201st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2020 March

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 590 GME comparison

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

In our comparison, 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.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 590 and the Radeon RX 590 GME have an identical TDP. 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 Radeon RX 590 is better than the Radeon RX 590 GME.