GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh vs Radeon RX 560X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking501not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.65no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolaris 21TU106B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores10241920
Core clock speed1175 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate81.60187.2
Floating-point processing power2.611 TFLOPS5.99 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs64120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s264.0 GB/s

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, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 65 Watt

RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 9 months, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 15.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 560X and GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 560X is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh is a notebook one.


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