AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB, 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
$ 360.90 significantly less expensive
$ 609.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2476 points
15734 points
535% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
321 FPS
270 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS
232 FPS
194 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
300 FPS
248 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS
140 FPS
120 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points
6282 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points
135343 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points
167848 points
203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz
2520 MHz
63% 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
640 GB/s
150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
551% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS
36.1 TFLOPS
407% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
128
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 600
17th of 600

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 9070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9070 beats the Radeon RX 590 in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9070 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9070 over the Radeon RX 590.

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