AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1650MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +23%

7.181 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4163

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +107%

8635

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +505%

2264

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +111%

36

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +82%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +84%

92

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +138%

86

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +64%

174

Radeon RX 480

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GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2019

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2176

144

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

TU106

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

TU106-410-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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