AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1680MHz vs 1266MHz)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +10%

6.451 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4162

GeForce RTX 2060 +79%

7487

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce RTX 2060 +41%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce RTX 2060 +54%

54

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce RTX 2060 +62%

81

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce RTX 2060 +83%

66

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 2060 +37%

146

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2019

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1920

144

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

TU106

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

2

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

3

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

4

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs MTT S80

5

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

6

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

7

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

8

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

9

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM

10

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

Related News

1

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

2

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It

3

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months

4

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

5

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

6

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

7

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

8

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

9

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

10

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip