Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated8
Place by popularitynot in top-10061
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data34.64
Power efficiencyno data15.77
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BNavi 31
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)3 November 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19206144
Core clock speed1005 MHz1929 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz2498 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt355 Watt
Texture fill rate187.2959.2
Floating-point processing power5.99 TFLOPS61.39 TFLOPS
ROPs48192
TMUs120384
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores3096

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data287 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB24 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s960.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.2
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2019 3 November 2022
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 355 Watt

RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh has 446.2% lower power consumption.

RX 7900 XTX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh and Radeon RX 7900 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh
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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
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