AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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Radeon RX 5700 XT compared with GeForce RTX 2060

	AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2060
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	January 2019
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	Turing
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	1,920 or 2,176
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,905 MHz or 1,980 MHz	1,680 MHz or 1,650 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	40 compute units; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs; 10.3 billion transistors. Main figures and photo describe the standard reference card, pictured as MSI's RX 5700 XT 8G.	NVIDIA reference GPU specifications; photo shows PNY's stock-clock 6 GB Blower partner card, whose cooler, dimensions and display connectors differ from the Founders Edition. The later 12 GB card has 2,176 CUDA cores rather than 1,920.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	First-generation RT Cores; NVIDIA's original launch specification lists 30 RT Cores and 5 Giga Rays/s for 6 GB
AI cores
AI cores	–	Second-generation Tensor Cores; 240 on the original 6 GB model according to NVIDIA's launch specification
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	Standard edition 1605 MHz base and 1755 MHz game clock; 50th Anniversary edition 1680 MHz base, 1830 MHz game clock and 1980 MHz boost.	1,365 MHz base and 1,680 MHz boost (6 GB); 1,470 MHz base and 1,650 MHz boost (12 GB)
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	6 GB GDDR6 or 12 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit or –	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s or –	336 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	Standard edition 14 Gbps GDDR6. AMD's launch table confirms the Anniversary edition's 8 GB GDDR6 but does not publish its bus, bandwidth or board power; those configuration fields are omitted independently.	14 Gbps GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus with 336 GB/s bandwidth on both revisions
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	225 W or –	160 W or 185 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G). AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4a support.	Original 6 GB NVIDIA page lists DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.0b, USB-C/VirtualLink and DVI-DL. The 12 GB regional table lists DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI-DL without USB-C; the current combined comparison table also omits USB-C. Up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2. Partner connectors vary.
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G)	7680 × 4320; original specification states 4K 144 Hz or 8K 60 Hz over DisplayPort with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin (standard)	1 × PCIe 8-pin for both reference specifications
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W (standard)	500 W (6 GB); 550 W (12 GB); NVIDIA reference power specifications
Slot width
Slot width	–	2-slot (original 6 GB Founders Edition); 12 GB partner cards vary
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 40 mm and 1110 g (MSI standard reference-design RX 5700 XT 8G)	228.60 × 112.6 mm, 2-slot (original 6 GB Founders Edition). NVIDIA's regional table repeats these dimensions for 12 GB, but no separate 12 GB Founders Edition design was verified.
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVENC, fourth-generation NVDEC (NVIDIA comparison table); no hardware AV1 encode