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.

 

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 9761
PassMark - G2D Mark 414
Geekbench - OpenCL 64091
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 5567

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 258 257
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