Radeon R9 390X2 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	94	not rated
Place by popularity	99	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	33.57	no data
Power efficiency	16.62	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code name	TU106	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 October 2018 (6 years ago)	no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2304	2
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1620 MHz	1000 MHz
Number of transistors	10,800 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	233.3	no data
Floating-point processing power	7.465 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	144	no data
Tensor Cores	288	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	36	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR6	512
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	5400 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	no data
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

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no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	GDDR5
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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