AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 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
$ 481.20 significantly less expensive
$ 729.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points
20954 points
749% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
421 FPS
369 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS
302 FPS
265 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
380 FPS
328 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS
172 FPS
152 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points
7249 points
53% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points
160380 points
250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points
194640 points
252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz
2970 MHz
92% 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
380.2 Gigapixels/s
667% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
584% 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

179th of 586
8th 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 9070 XT benchmarks

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

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 9070 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is better than the Radeon RX 590.

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