AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1250MHz vs 1185MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +96%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

4.55 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro Vega 56

521

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +172%

1420

Radeon Pro Vega 56

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GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2020

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1920

224

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.88 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.101 TFLOPS

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.550 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

TU106

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

N18E-G1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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