GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs Radeon RX 5900 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated99
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data15.41
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 21TU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data7 December 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores43522176
Core clock speedno data1470 MHz
Boost clock speed1735 MHz1650 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt184 Watt
Texture fill rate471.9224.4
Floating-point processing power15.1 TFLOPS7.181 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs272136
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data34

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 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 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, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 184 Watt

RX 5900 XT has a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 2060 12 GB, on the other hand, has 63% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5900 XT and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 5900 XT
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