NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 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

3523 points

5320% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

63% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4254 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1050 MHz

18% 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

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

Identical

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

243% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

67.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

184.8 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

5.91 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2816

22% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

176

22% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

531st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 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 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon R9 390X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 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. 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 2070 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon R9 390X.