AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 248.79

$ 696.21 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

6138 points

148% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

107 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

100 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

106 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

56 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4729 points

9129 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49268 points

68286 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

86533 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

77122 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

59450 points

77386 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

92086 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

91729 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

13% slightly 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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

1024 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

71% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.54 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

132% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

94% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

93% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3840

66% 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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

HBM2

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 VII specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon VII GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 590 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Radeon VII has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon VII 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 VII at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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