NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • 8.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Launch date 29 January 2019 vs 1 June 2018
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

  • Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 885 MHz
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1301 MHz vs 1185 MHz
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1138 MHz vs 885 MHz
Boost clock speed 1301 MHz vs 1185 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 8912

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8912
8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8912
8917
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark 11781
PassMark - G2D Mark 485
Geekbench - OpenCL 78907
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 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8912 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8055
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6838

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 5.0
Code name TU106 Vega 10
Launch date 29 January 2019 1 June 2018
Place in performance rating 179 135
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1185 MHz 1301 MHz
Core clock speed 885 MHz 1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 2304
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 10,800 million 12,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6