GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	94
Place by popularity	not in top-100	99
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	33.61
Power efficiency	no data	16.55
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Vega 10	TU106
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	13 July 2017 (7 years ago)	17 October 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,489	$499

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	4096	2304
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1620 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	175 Watt
Texture fill rate	409.6	233.3
Floating-point processing power	13.11 TFLOPS	7.465 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	64
TMUs	256	144
Tensor Cores	no data	288
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	36

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	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	229 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 8-pin

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	HBM2	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	945 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	448.0 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
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.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.2.131
CUDA	-	7.5

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	13 July 2017	17 October 2018
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	175 Watt

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