Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 590
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5700 XT |
| 140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 590 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 590 |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5700 XT
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 5700 XT | | GeForce GTX 590 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Navi 10 (Navi 10 XT) | vs | GF110 (GF110-351-A1) |
| Fab Process | 7 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 254 mm² | vs | 520 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 3,000 million |
| Shaders | 2560 | vs | 512 |
| Compute Units | 40 | vs | 16 |
| Core clock | 1605 MHz | vs | 608 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 256 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 5700 XT | | GeForce GTX 590 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective | vs | 854 MHz
3416 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 5700 XT | | GeForce GTX 590 | |
|---|
| TDP | 225 watts | vs | 365 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Jul 2019 | vs | 24 Mar 2011 |
Radeon RX 5700 XT
112.30 GP/s
GeForce GTX 590
39.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 5700 XT
449.30 GT/s
GeForce GTX 590
77.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 5700 XT
448.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 590
328.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 5700 XT
8980.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 590
2488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better