NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 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

42% slightly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55240 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1545 MHz

58% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1545 MHz

30% 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

3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

169% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

56% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

56% significantly 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

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2018 November

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 590 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 590 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 590 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 590 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon RX 590.