AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 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 9 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 780 - 960 MHz
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 657 vs 566
  • Around 84% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 6839 vs 3716
  • Around 84% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 6839 vs 3716
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 20161 vs 3359
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 20161 vs 3359
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 vs 27 May 2019
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 780 - 960 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 657 vs 566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 vs 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 vs 3359

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

  • Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1380 - 1485 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 175 Watt
  • 7x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)
  • Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12794 vs 8560
  • 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 18169 vs 5140
  • 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 18169 vs 5140
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1380 - 1485 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12794 vs 8560
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 18169 vs 5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 18169 vs 5140

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
657
566
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8560
12794
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
18169
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5140
18169
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6839
3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20161
3359
Name AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 657 566
PassMark - G3D Mark 8560 12794
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5140 18169
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5140 18169
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4432
Geekbench - OpenCL 68858

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Turing
Code name Polaris 20 N19E-Q3 MAX-Q
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date 9 Mar 2020 27 May 2019
Place in performance rating 206 181
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz 1380 - 1485 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 780 - 960 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 12 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
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 5700 million 13600 million
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) 12.1
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
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6

Technologies

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