NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB and AMD Radeon R9 390 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

AMD Radeon R9 390

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 65% higher boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1000 MHz
1402.5x more texture fill rate: 224.4 GTexel/s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
Around 49% lower typical power consumption: 184 Watt vs 275 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 850 vs 791
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15977 vs 8876
8.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8026 vs 955

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Dec 2021 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	224.4 GTexel/s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	184 Watt vs 275 Watt
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	850 vs 791
PassMark - G3D Mark	15977 vs 8876
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8026 vs 955

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390

Around 18% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2176

Pipelines	2560 vs 2176

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

850

791

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15977

8876

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

8026

955

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB	AMD Radeon R9 390
PassMark - G2D Mark	850	791
PassMark - G3D Mark	15977	8876
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8026	955
Geekbench - OpenCL		43778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		120.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3164.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		11.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		116.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		607.381
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB	AMD Radeon R9 390
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU106	Grenada
Launch date	7 Dec 2021	18 June 2015
Place in performance rating	54	312
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$329
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	1470 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	224.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	14.36 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.181 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2176	2560
Pixel fill rate	79.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	224.4 GTexel/s	160.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	184 Watt	275 Watt
Transistor count	10800 million	6,200 million
Compute units		40
Floating-point performance		5,120 gflops
Stream Processors		2560
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	275 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	384 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	512 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore