NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 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

4311 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

89 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

64 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

78 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

7692 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

194% significantly higher Blender score

619.96 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

57968 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48131 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

65528 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

77765 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1130 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1560 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

31% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

7.19 TFLOPS

31% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

Identical

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

Identical

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

116th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5600 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600 XT beats the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5600 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 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 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5600 XT over the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.