NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1650MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +68%

8024

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +25%

30

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +30%

60

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +28%

91

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +15%

45

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +16%

86

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +15%

117

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +35%

57

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +28%

86

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +58%

174

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

2304

136

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Polaris 30

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4855

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs MTT S10

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game