NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 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

4831 points

186% significantly better overall score

1687 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points

220% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2350 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

68% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

56% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

152% significantly higher pixel rate

32 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

128 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

57% significantly better floating point performance

4.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2048

6% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

128

6% 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

106th of 586

226th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

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 vs Radeon R9 280X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2060 beats the Radeon R9 280X in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 2060 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 GeForce RTX 2060 also has a significantly 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 GeForce RTX 2060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X at 250 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 is better than the Radeon R9 280X.