NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1680MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (160W vs 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2060
+57%
6.451 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 20
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
1680 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
30
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
2048
120
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
240
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
80.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
201.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
12.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.451 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
201.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU106
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU106-200A-KA-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
10.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
445 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
