NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1680MHz vs 1340MHz)

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

Lower TDP (160W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +4%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

2304

120

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

185W

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 20

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 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

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