NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1680MHz vs 1545MHz)

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

Lower TDP (160W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +10%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 +57%

7487

Radeon RX 590

4760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

24

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +17%

54

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +14%

81

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +10%

43

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +2%

76

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +8%

110

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +21%

51

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

66

Radeon RX 590 +1%

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +32%

146

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 2060

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Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 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

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

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

49.44 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Polaris 30

TU106-200A-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

Board Design

160W

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 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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