Home GPU comparison AMD Radeon RX 590 and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 - Which is better?

AMD Radeon RX 590 vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060

19 out 100
AMD Radeon RX 590
VS
36 out 100
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
AMD Radeon RX 590
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 590, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

  1. Differences
  2. Review
  3. General
  4. Benchmarks
  5. Processor
  6. Memory
  7. Comments (0)

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 590 and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison
Processors:
AMD Radeon RX 590
vs
GeForce RTX 4060

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
79
42
33
19
127
81
70
49
The Witcher 3
54
47
26
15
142
114
82
46
Counter-Strike 2
93
64
42
20
204
154
114
57
Far Cry 6
62
50
39
20
107
96
75
42
Hogwarts Legacy
36
29
20
10
80
66
50
26
COD Modern Warfare 3
50
42
29
17
96
89
64
41
Ghost of Tsushima
36
25
17
10
74
61
45
25
Cyberpunk 2077
34
30
15
n/a
83
74
44
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
67
55
34
17
130
119
87
43
Avg FPS
1080p High57116
1080p Ultra4395
1440p Ultra2870
4K Ultra1539
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 590
4611
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
10688
Time Spy477810620
Solar Bayn/a49040
Port Royaln/a6050
Fire Strike1652428559
Night Raid62059121867
Sources: 3DMark [AMD Radeon RX 590], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 590
45783
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
106633
Background Blur69 frames/s186.9 frames/s
Face Detection38.2 frames/s112.7 frames/s
Horizon Detection1.75 Gpix/sec3.92 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection3.31 Gpix/sec5.16 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur3.31 Gpix/sec4.94 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.38 Gpix/sec1.34 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching180.5 Gpix/sec446.2 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics6238 fps14935.1 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
Sources: GeekBench v6 [AMD Radeon RX 590], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 590
9377
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
19712
G2D Mark7881080
DirectX 1165 fps174 fps
DirectX 1246 fps77 fps
GPU Compute3900 Ops/s9311 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [AMD Radeon RX 590], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 590
61.2 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
118.3 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)345.4 fps709 fps
Car Chase328.1 fps615.4 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)275.6 fps496.1 fps
T-Rex1275.2 fps2635.8 fps
ALU 21417.7 fps3284 fps
Driver Overhead 2266.8 fps280.8 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation1012.63372.6
Sources: GFXBench 5 [AMD Radeon RX 590], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon RX 590
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon RX 590
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon RX 590
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
14234
Image Classification (SP)n/a7696
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a13706
Horizon Detectionn/a23289
Face Detection (HP)n/a31126
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a78361
Text Classification (SP)n/a3315
Machine Translation (HP)n/a3491
Object Detection (SP)n/a9386
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a36778
Style Transfer (SP)n/a148120
Frameworkn/aONNX
Backendn/aDirectML
Sources: GeekBench v6 [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
AMD Radeon RX 590
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
3174.4

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced November, 15, 2018 May, 18, 2023
Form Factor PC use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture GCN 4.0 Ada Lovelace
Codename Polaris 30 AD107
Price 279 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 1469 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 1545 MHz 2460 MHz
Shader Units 2304 3072
TMUs 144 96
ROPs 32 48
Execution Units n/a 24
Ray Tracing Cores No 24
Tensor Cores No 96
L1 cache 16 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 2000 KB/core 24000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 49 Gpix/sec 118 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 222 GTex/s 236 GTex/s
FLOPS 7.1 TFLOPS 15.1 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 175 W 115 W
Process GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process tech. 12 nm 5 nm
Transistor Size 232 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor count 5 billion 18 billion
Transistor density 21.55 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 2000 MHz n/a
Bus 256 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 590
256 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 8.9
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 the clear winner in this comparison.

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