GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon Vega 3 Efficient

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated184
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data26.32
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRavenTU106B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date26 May 2018 (6 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 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 cores1922304
Core clock speed300 MHz885 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1185 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate12.00170.6
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPS5.46 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs12144
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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
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
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 May 2018 29 January 2019
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 80 Watt

Vega 3 Efficient has 433.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 2070 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 3 Efficient and GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 3 Efficient is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Vega 3 Efficient
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