AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA TITAN X

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB vs NVIDIA TITAN X 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA TITAN X

Price

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$ 248.79

$ 48.78 slightly less expensive

$ 297.57

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2466 points

6843 points

177% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

141 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS

111 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

87 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

89 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52086 points

60601 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48483 points

84305 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points

67320 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points

80852 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1545 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1417 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

42% much lower TDP

250 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

179th of 586

70th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 590 vs TITAN X comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 590 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the TITAN X has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 590 has a much lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the TITAN X at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the TITAN X over the Radeon RX 590.