GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated94
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data33.84
Power efficiencyno data17.26
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega 10TU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 August 2017 (7 years ago)17 October 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$549 $499

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 cores40962304
Core clock speed1200 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1536 MHz1620 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate393.2233.3
Floating-point processing power12.58 TFLOPS7.465 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs256144
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length282 mm229 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed945 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/s448.0 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 DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2017 17 October 2018
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 295 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 2070 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 68.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition and GeForce RTX 2070. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition
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