AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Price

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$ 248.79

$ 414.20 significantly less expensive

$ 662.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

15475 points

527% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

326 FPS

274 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

216 FPS

178 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

295 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

127 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4154 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

142590 points

211% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

157875 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

1800 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2430 MHz

57% 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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

624 GB/s

143% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

50% significantly lower TDP

263 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

233 Gigapixels/s

370% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

583 Gigatexels/s

162% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

36.04 TFLOPS

406% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

8192

255% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

240

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

17th 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

4.6

Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 7800 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7800 XT beats the Radeon RX 590 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 7800 XT has a slightly 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 7800 XT also has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 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 590 has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7800 XT at 263 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7800 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 590.