GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh vs Radeon RX 590

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking229not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.05no data
Power efficiency9.55no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolaris 30TU106B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date15 November 2018 (6 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 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 cores23041920
Core clock speed1469 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate222.5187.2
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS5.99 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 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s264.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 November 2018 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 65 Watt

RX 590 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and 169.2% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that Radeon RX 590 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 590
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