NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 210 Watt
8.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 17150 vs 14462
Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 17150 vs 14462

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 14 August 2017
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 210 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17150 vs 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17150 vs 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3720 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720 vs 3717

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1156 MHz vs 960 MHz
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1471 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 87% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 1920
Around 17% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 6875 vs 5895
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 540
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13175 vs 11355

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1156 MHz vs 960 MHz
Boost clock speed	1471 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	3584 vs 1920
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6875 vs 5895
PassMark - G2D Mark	768 vs 540
PassMark - G3D Mark	13175 vs 11355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3361 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3361 vs 3358

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

5895

6875

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

540

768

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11355

13175

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

17150

14462

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

17150

14462

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3720

3717

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3720

3717

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3361

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3361

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5895	6875
PassMark - G2D Mark	540	768
PassMark - G3D Mark	11355	13175
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17150	14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17150	14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3720	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358	3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358	3361
Geekbench - OpenCL		163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1022.925

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 5.0
Code name	TU106B	Vega 10
Launch date	29 January 2019	14 August 2017
Place in performance rating	219	217
Price now	$349.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	62.74
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1471 MHz
Core clock speed	960 MHz	1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	1920	3584
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	210 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	12,500 million
Compute units		56
Floating-point performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		94.00 GP/s
Render output units		64
Stream Processors		3584
Texture fill rate		330.00 GTexel/s
Texture Units		256
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		410 GB/s
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore