NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390 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

4840 points

152% significantly better overall score

1919 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

53 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9001 points

127% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3950 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46328 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73515 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

49594 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43704 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

51251 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

62% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 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

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

57% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

62% significantly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

160 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

45% significantly better floating point performance

5.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2560

11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

160

11% 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

105th of 586

215th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

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 vs Radeon R9 390 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2070 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 GeForce RTX 2070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 2070 has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2070 over the Radeon R9 390.