AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

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Radeon RX 5700 XT compared with GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

	AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	July 2019
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	Turing
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	2,176
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,905 MHz or 1,980 MHz	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/Founders Edition GPU figures; the photo shows PNY's stock-clock Dual Fan partner card
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	First-generation RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	Second-generation Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	NVIDIA DLSS super resolution; 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.	1,470 MHz
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit or –	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s or –	448 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.	PNY publishes 14 Gbps GDDR6 and 448 GB/sec bandwidth
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	225 W or –	175 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.	NVIDIA's original Founders Edition manual shows 2 × DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI and USB-C; its current comparison table omits USB-C. Pictured PNY Dual Fan lists DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b and DVI-D, with no USB-C listed.
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G)	7680 × 4320; NVIDIA specifies support for four displays
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin (standard)	1 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W (standard)	NVIDIA specifies 550 W; requirements depend on the system
Slot width
Slot width	–	Two slots for the Founders Edition and pictured PNY Dual Fan
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 40 mm and 1110 g (MSI standard reference-design RX 5700 XT 8G)	NVIDIA reference/Founders Edition is 228.60 × 112.6 mm; pictured PNY Dual Fan is 1.65 × 9.25 × 4.4 inches
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVIDIA Encoder and fourth-generation Decoder; PNY specifies PCIe 3.0 x16. NVIDIA specifies no NVLink support.