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).

 

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 16% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 6877 vs 5908
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 776 vs 540
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13308 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 6877 vs 5908
PassMark - G2D Mark 776 vs 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 13308 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
5908
6877
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
540
776
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11355
13308
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 5908 6877
PassMark - G2D Mark 540 776
PassMark - G3D Mark 11355 13308
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 205 211
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