AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5600 XT with 2304 shaders against the 1 year older GeForce RTX 2060 that utilizes 30 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
6 GB GDDR6
VS
6 GB GDDR6
13.0
(Bad)
Value Index
33.6
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2060 over RX 5600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5600 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060
  • Ray-tracing support with 30 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Features 240 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
110
61
48
28
99
62
49
35
The Witcher 3
94
75
48
28
107
86
62
34
Counter-Strike 2
154
108
75
36
157
117
82
41
Far Cry 6
89
76
54
29
84
74
57
29
Hogwarts Legacy
56
44
34
15
59
47
33
15
CoD: Modern Warfare III
72
67
43
28
69
59
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima
60
48
32
15
53
42
30
18
Cyberpunk 2077
57
49
25
12
58
52
32
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
101
88
56
31
92
85
58
33
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 88 86
1080p Ultra 68 69
1440p Ultra 46 50
4K Ultra 25 28
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
6991
RTX 2060 +6%
7385
Time Spy 7631 7564
Solar Bay - 34157
Port Royal - 4133
Fire Strike 22323 19777
Wild Life Extreme 14672 15551
Night Raid 86634 85132
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
66629
RTX 2060 +18%
78934
Background Blur 123.2 img/sec 144.4 img/sec
Face Detection 71.4 img/sec 75.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.85 Gpixels/sec 3.08 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.1 Gpixels/sec 4.25 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.48 Gpixels/sec 4.21 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.93 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 253.9 Gpixels/sec 354.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7670.6 FPS 8559.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
2988
RTX 2060 +64%
4901

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
13384
RTX 2060 +5%
14078
G2D Mark 871 743
DirectX 11 95 FPS 112 FPS
DirectX 12 52 FPS 53 FPS
GPU Compute 6184 Ops/s 5427 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 4842 & 33708 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
618.03
RTX 2060 +163%
1626.82
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 281 & 2415 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 5600 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL70675
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Steel Nomad Light7074
GeForce RTX 2060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-15 (MrRayeen)Geekbench 6 OpenCL82889

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
12529
12466
GB6 ML Half Precision
14594
RTX 2060 +49%
21712
GB6 ML Quantized
9434
8757
Image Classification (SP) 5459 5453
Image Segmentation (HP) 6448 12449
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15013 11020
Face Detection (HP) 17318 24511
Pose Estimation (Q) 62592 47746
Text Classification (SP) 1533 2000
Machine Translation (HP) 3771 3360
Object Detection (SP) 5601 6343
Depth Estimation (Q) 22988 20909
Style Transfer (SP) 120386 101870
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce RTX 2060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 21, 2020 January 15, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $279 $349
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 10 TU106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9060 XT - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9500 or above - Intel Core i5 9600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (70th and 69th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1130 MHz 1365 MHz
Boost Clock 1560 MHz 1680 MHz
Shading Units 2304 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 30
Tensor Cores No 240
Ray-tracing Cores No 30
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 100 GPixel/s 81 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 225 GTexel/s 202 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5600 XT +11%
7.2 TFLOPS
6.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 150 W 160 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 12 nm
Die Size 251 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 39.84 MTr/mm² 22.47 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
288 GB/s
RTX 2060 +17%
336 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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