NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super 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 Super

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1470 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 580 Watt
  • 2.6x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
  • Around 28% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 27.053 vs 21.128
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 July 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed 1470 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.053 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

  • 2.4x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 2176
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB
Pipelines 2x 2560 vs 2176
Maximum memory size 2x 8 GB vs 8 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
27.053
21.128
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 16580
PassMark - G2D Mark 860
Geekbench - OpenCL 87122
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 246.191
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3885.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.053 21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 165.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1271.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20969
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5567
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5026
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20969
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5567
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5026
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 2.0
Code name TU106 Grenada
Launch date 2 July 2019 3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $1,399
Place in performance rating 145 247
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz
Core clock speed 1470 MHz 1000 MHz
CUDA cores 2176
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 89 C
Pipelines 2176 2x 2560
Render output units 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 10.8 B 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Port 1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays 4
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 4.435” (112.6mm)
Length 9.0” (228.60mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8 pin 4x 8-pin
Width 2-Slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready