NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 XTR

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated121
Place by popularitynot in top-10024
Value for moneyno data21.00
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code namePolaris 20Turing TU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (6 years old)6 January 2019 (5 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 $349
Current price$500 (2.2x MSRP)$397 (1.1x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

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 cores23041920
Core clock speed1257 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed1340 MHz1620 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate193.0201.6
Floating-point performance6,175 gflopsno data

Size and 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 3.0 x16
Length241 mm229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 8-pin

Memory

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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++
G-SYNC supportno data+

Technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API support

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

DirectX12.0 (12_0)12
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno data1.2.131
CUDAno data7.5

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 18 April 2017 6 January 2019
Cost $229 $349
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 175 Watt

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