NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (2460MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +112%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4060 +123%

10626

Radeon RX 590

4761

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4060 +91%

46

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4060 +104%

94

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4060 +133%

166

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4060 +66%

65

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4060 +51%

112

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4060 +60%

162

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4060 +114%

90

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4060 +34%

90

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4060 +72%

190

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 4060

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3072

Shading Units

2304

96

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Polaris 30

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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