AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 845.9x more texture fill rate: 198.7 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 6839 vs 5581
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 6839 vs 5581
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 20161 vs 3360
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 20161 vs 3360
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 vs 27 June 2017
Texture fill rate 198.7 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 vs 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 vs 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 vs 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 vs 3360

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

  • Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 1257 MHz
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1468 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 175 Watt
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 731 vs 657
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11482 vs 8560
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 17105 vs 5140
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 17105 vs 5140
  • Around 36% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 6008 vs 4432
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed 1468 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 731 vs 657
PassMark - G3D Mark 11482 vs 8560
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17105 vs 5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17105 vs 5140
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6008 vs 4432

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
657
731
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8560
11482
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4432
6008
Name AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 657 731
PassMark - G3D Mark 8560 11482
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5140 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5140 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4432 6008
Geekbench - OpenCL 45938

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Polaris 20 GP104
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 204 181
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz 1468 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate 44.16 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 198.7 GTexel/s 234.9 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 5700 million 7,200 million
Floating-point performance 7,516 gflops
Pipelines 2560

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Width Dual-slot
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 320.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) 10008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready