GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	137	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	22.42	no data
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	Navi 10	TU106B
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	21 January 2020 (4 years ago)	29 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$279	no data
Current price	$94 (0.3x MSRP)	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	1920
Core clock speed	1235 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz	1560 MHz
Number of transistors	10,300 million	10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	65 Watt
Texture fill rate	224.6	187.2

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	11 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	264.0 GB/s
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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	no data	7.5

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	21 January 2020	29 January 2019
Chip lithography	7 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	65 Watt

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