GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs Radeon RX 590 GME

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
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolaris 20TU104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date9 March 2020 (4 years ago)10 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$349

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 cores23041920
Core clock speed1257 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speed1420 MHz1680 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt160 Watt
Texture fill rate204.5201.6
Floating-point processing power6.543 TFLOPS6.451 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs144120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s336.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.11.2
Vulkan1.31.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 March 2020 10 January 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 160 Watt

RX 590 GME has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 2060 TU104, on the other hand, has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 9.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 590 GME and GeForce RTX 2060 TU104. We've got no test results to judge.


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