Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs GeForce RTX 2060

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking127not rated
Place by popularity20not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation41.10no data
Power efficiency15.92no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameTU106Polaris 20
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 January 2019 (5 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 no data

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 cores19202304
Core clock speed1365 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1680 MHz1077 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate201.6155.1
Floating-point processing power6.451 TFLOPS4.963 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs120144
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores30no data

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s256.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2019 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 2060 has an age advantage of 8 months, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

RX 580X Mobile, on the other hand, has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 60% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 and Radeon RX 580X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2060 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 580X Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
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