Radeon R5 Graphics vs GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameTU106BSpectre SL
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 June 2020 (4 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304256
Core clock speed900 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHz720 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate162.07.952
Floating-point processing power5.184 TFLOPS0.2545 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs14416
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 June 2020 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

R5 Graphics, on the other hand, has 666.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon R5 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh
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AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
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