Radeon RX 5900 XT vs GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking149not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.66no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BNavi 21
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)no data

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 cores23044352
Core clock speed1305 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1485 MHz1735 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million21,000 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate213.8471.9
Floating-point processing power6.843 TFLOPS15.1 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs144272
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s672.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 2070 Mobile has 160.9% lower power consumption.

RX 5900 XT, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile and Radeon RX 5900 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5900 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
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AMD Radeon RX 5900 XT
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