AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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

4979 points

101% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

104 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

78 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

87 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

43 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

11742 points

148% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

93784 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

55272 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

59450 points

113721 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

87678 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

97983 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

2300 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2581 MHz

67% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

384 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

145 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

233% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

368 Gigatexels/s

65% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

11.78 TFLOPS

65% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2560

11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

160

11% slightly more texture mapping units

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

102nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2021 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 Radeon RX 6800M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800M GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800M also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800M 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 6800M has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800M is better than the Radeon RX 590.