NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1410 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): 27.133 vs 21.128
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 October 2018 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed 1410 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) 27.133 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

  • 2.2x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 2304
Pipelines 2x 2560 vs 2304

Compare benchmarks

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

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
27.133
21.128
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 16176
PassMark - G2D Mark 825
Geekbench - OpenCL 88523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 252.062
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3729.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.133 21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 154.621
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1303.435
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22615
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22615
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8882

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 2.0
Code name TU106 Grenada
Launch date 17 October 2018 3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $1,399
Place in performance rating 140 247
Price now $499.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 42.76

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1620 MHz
Core clock speed 1410 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2304 2x 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 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 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 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