NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1185 MHz vs 1018 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
4.3x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 500 Watt
11.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11609 vs 8574

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1185 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11609 vs 8574

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

2.4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2304
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 755 vs 472

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2304
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	755 vs 472

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11609

8574

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

472

755

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11609	8574
PassMark - G2D Mark	472	755
Geekbench - OpenCL	76209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	168.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1935.102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	111.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1001.496
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8055
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6796	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU106	Vesuvius
Launch date	29 January 2019	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	189	187
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1185 MHz	1018 MHz
Core clock speed	885 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2x 2816
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Texture fill rate		2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Length		307 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		640 GB/s
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)