AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

Price

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$ 248.79

$ 91.20 significantly less expensive

$ 339.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

8641 points

250% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

181 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

134 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

162 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

69 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

101% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2348 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

83213 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

98317 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2755 MHz

78% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 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

8% slightly lower TDP

190 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

176.3 Gigapixels/s

255% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

352.6 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

22.57 TFLOPS

217% significantly better floating point performance

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

47th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

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

Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 7600 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7600 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7600 XT at 190 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7600 XT over the Radeon RX 590.