NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) 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 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 59% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5595 vs 3510
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 January 2019 vs 18 April 2017
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5595 vs 3510

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1920
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
Pipelines 2304 vs 1920
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
5595
3510
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark 9801
PassMark - G2D Mark 418
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
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 5595 3510

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 4.0
Code name TU106 Polaris 20
Launch date 6 January 2019 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 248 681
Type Laptop Desktop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $301.69
Price now $169.99
Value for money (0-100) 62.57

Technical info

Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 1920 2304
Boost clock speed 1340 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

G-SYNC support
Display Connectors No outputs
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size large large
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
Vulkan
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
VR Ready
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)