AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 248.79
$ 21.20 slightly less expensive
$ 269.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points
10996 points
345% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
225 FPS
173 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS
163 FPS
125 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
205 FPS
153 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS
90 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points
27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3719 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points
90142 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points
115648 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz
3130 MHz
102% 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
320 GB/s
25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s
200.3 Gigapixels/s
304% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS
25.6 TFLOPS
259% 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

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586
35th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is better than the Radeon RX 590.

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