NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 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. 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 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 580 Watt
2.6x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 22.794 vs 21.128

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.794 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 885 MHz
2.2x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 2304

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 885 MHz
Pipelines	2x 2560 vs 2304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

22.794

21.128

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11756
PassMark - G2D Mark	484
Geekbench - OpenCL	78123
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	21.128
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	6838

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU106	Grenada
Launch date	29 January 2019	3 September 2015
Place in performance rating	178	247
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1185 MHz
Core clock speed	885 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2x 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	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 Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 345.6 GB / s