GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	86	not rated
Place by popularity	72	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	47.59	no data
Power efficiency	13.19	no data
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Navi 10	TU106B
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	7 July 2019 (5 years ago)	16 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2560	2304
Core clock speed	1605 MHz	900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1905 MHz	1125 MHz
Number of transistors	10,300 million	10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	115 Watt
Texture fill rate	304.8	162.0
Floating-point processing power	9.754 TFLOPS	5.184 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	64
TMUs	160	144
Tensor Cores	no data	288
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	36

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	272 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	352.0 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready	+	no data
Multi Monitor	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2
CUDA	-	7.5

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 July 2019	16 June 2020
Chip lithography	7 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	115 Watt

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