NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3514 points

5306% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

75 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

32% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4254 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1050 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

512 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

384 GB/s

45% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

323% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

67.2 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

184.8 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

5.91 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2816

46% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

176

46% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

531st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs Radeon R9 390X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390X in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 390X has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R9 390X has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390X at 275 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q over the Radeon R9 390X.