GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh vs Radeon R9 380X

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking332not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.98no data
Power efficiency5.84no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameAntiguaTU106B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date19 November 2015 (8 years ago)16 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores20482304
Compute units32no data
Core clock speedno data900 MHz
Boost clock speed970 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate124.2162.0
Floating-point processing power3.973 TFLOPS5.184 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs128144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors​2 x 6-pinNone
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
High bandwidth memory (HBM)-no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed970 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth182.4 GB/s352.0 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TrueAudio+-
ZeroCore+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan+1.2
Mantle+-
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 November 2015 16 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 65.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 380X and GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 380X is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 380X
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