NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	6 January 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

2.7x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 1920
2.7x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 6 GB
Around 18% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.128 vs 17.956

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2x 2560 vs 1920
Maximum memory size	2x 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.128 vs 17.956

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

17.956

21.128

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	9791
PassMark - G2D Mark	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	59513
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	234.866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2849.031
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.956	21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	147.291
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	809.639
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5596

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU106	Grenada
Launch date	6 January 2019	3 September 2015
Place in performance rating	248	246
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1920	2x 2560
Core clock speed		1000 MHz
Floating-point performance		2x 5,120 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		580 Watt
Transistor count		6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
G-SYNC support
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
Vulkan
OpenGL		4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 8 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth		2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory clock speed		5400 MHz
Technologies
Multi Monitor
VR Ready