NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 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

64% significantly better overall score

2142 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

36% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

295% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

44522 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49182 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1266 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1266 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

17% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

130% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

40% slightly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

182.3 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

5.83 TFLOPS

28% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2304

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

144

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2016 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 RX 480 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 480 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 480 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 at 150 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 480.