AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Polaris 30 TU106
GPU variant Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006) N18E-G2-A1
Architecture GCN 4.0 Turing
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 12 nm 12 nm
Number of transistors 5,700 million 10,800 million
Die size 232 mm² 445 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 15th, 2018
Generation Polaris
Production Active
Launch price 279 USD
Current price Amazon / Newegg
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 36 in our database
Predecessor Arctic Islands
Successor Vega

Clocks

Base clock 1469 MHz 885 MHz
Boost clock 1545 MHz 1185 MHz
Memory clock 2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 384.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2304 2304
TMUs 144 144
ROPs 32 64
Compute units 36
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 2 MB 4 MB
SM count 36
Tensor cores 288
RT cores 36

Performance

Pixel rate 49.44 GPixel/s 75.84 GPixel/s
Texture rate 222.5 GTexel/s 170.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 7.119 TFLOPS (1:1) 10.92 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) performance 7.119 TFLOPS 5.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 445.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 170.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 175 W 90 W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Board number C944-41 E4914 SKU 30

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.4 6.6
CUDA 7.5

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 29th, 2019
Generation GeForce 20 Mobile
Production Active
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 10 Mobile
Successor GeForce 30 Mobile

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