AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1620MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +4%

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4757

GeForce RTX 2070 +86%

8861

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

GeForce RTX 2070 +54%

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

GeForce RTX 2070 +47%

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

GeForce RTX 2070 +38%

98

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

GeForce RTX 2070 +38%

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

GeForce RTX 2070 +29%

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

GeForce RTX 2070 +26%

128

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

GeForce RTX 2070 +104%

86

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

67

GeForce RTX 2070 +34%

90

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 2070 +61%

178

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Oct 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

2304

Shading Units

2304

144

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

175W

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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

TU106

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

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

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