AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5700 XT with 2560 shaders against the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER that utilizes 34 pipelines and 2176 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
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
75.7
(Good)
Value Index
40.3
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2060 SUPER over RX 5700 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5700 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • 36% higher maximum theoretical performance (9.8 vs 7.2 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
  • Ray-tracing support with 34 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Features 272 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
131
73
57
35
108
68
58
36
The Witcher 3
113
94
66
36
119
99
71
37
Counter-Strike 2
185
128
91
47
174
131
92
47
Far Cry 6
102
86
64
36
94
82
65
35
Hogwarts Legacy
67
56
39
18
64
52
38
21
CoD: Modern Warfare III
90
85
55
35
79
70
51
31
Ghost of Tsushima
75
58
39
21
60
47
37
22
Cyberpunk 2077
69
62
33
15
66
61
36
14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
121
107
72
35
102
93
68
34
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 106 96
1080p Ultra 83 78
1440p Ultra 57 57
4K Ultra 31 31
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
8566
Time Spy 9421 8729
Solar Bay - 38528
Port Royal - 5061
Fire Strike 27551 22540
Wild Life Extreme 18403 17535
Night Raid 103057 92217
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
81739
92186
Background Blur 148 img/sec 155.7 img/sec
Face Detection 89.5 img/sec 93.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.52 Gpixels/sec 3.81 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.98 Gpixels/sec 4.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.11 Gpixels/sec 4.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.75 Gpixels/sec 1.09 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 295.8 Gpixels/sec 381.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10480.7 FPS 10550.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
16032
16464
G2D Mark 920 857
DirectX 11 115 FPS 132 FPS
DirectX 12 63 FPS 61 FPS
GPU Compute 7516 Ops/s 6668 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 18342 & 12636 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
976.85
2186.61
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 959 & 1126 samples

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
14920
GB6 ML Half Precision
16852
24064
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5700 XT +23%
11883
Image Classification (SP) 6764 5952
Image Segmentation (HP) 7615 13581
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19081 12282
Face Detection (HP) 20621 27779
Pose Estimation (Q) 73667 53249
Text Classification (SP) 1970 2087
Machine Translation (HP) 2417 3660
Object Detection (SP) 6684 6977
Depth Estimation (Q) 30456 23707
Style Transfer (SP) 147087 112439
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5700 XT and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released July 7, 2019 July 9, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $399
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 10 TU106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 -
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9600K or above - Intel Core i5 9600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (65th and 63rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1605 MHz 1470 MHz
Boost Clock 1905 MHz 1650 MHz
Shading Units 2560 2176
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 136
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 34
Tensor Cores No 272
Ray-tracing Cores No 34
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 122 GPixel/s 106 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 305 GTexel/s 224 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5700 XT +36%
9.8 TFLOPS
7.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 225 W 175 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 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
448 GB/s
448 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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