AMD Radeon RX 580
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
AMD Radeon RX 580
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

149
Place in performance rating
72
71.43
Value for money (0-100)
48.00
Polaris
Architecture
Turing
Polaris 20
Code name
TU106
Desktop
Type
Desktop
18 April 2017 (4 years ago)
Release date
6 January 2019 (2 years ago)
$229
Launch price (MSRP)
$349
$566 (2.5x MSRP)
Price now
$964 (2.8x MSRP)
23.02
Value for money
23.84
Polaris 20
GPU code name
Turing TU106
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2304
Pipelines
1920
1257 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
1340 MHz
Boost Clock
1680 MHz
5,700 million
Transistor count
10,800 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
185 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
193.0
Texture fill rate
201.6
6,175 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
2304
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
1340 MHz
Boost clock speed
1620 MHz
5,700 million
Number of transistors
10,800 million
185 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
160 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
241 mm
Length
229 mm
1x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR6
8 GB
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
192 Bit
8000 MHz
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
256.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
336.0 GB/s
no data
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, the size and number of monitors.

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
no data
G-SYNC support
+
+
HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is the additional functionality.

no data
VR Ready
+
no data
Multi Monitor
+
no data
CUDA
7.5

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
1.2.131
no data
Shader Model
6.5
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon RX 580 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon RX 580
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 146 101 86 69 52 30
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon RX 580
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 173 118 111 107 76.4 42.3
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon RX 580
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 288 211 172 120 89 52
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon RX 580
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 309 193 120 82.9 57.1 31.1
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon RX 580
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 281 185 167 162 102 45.9
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 580

Cheaper ($566 (2.5x MSRP) vs $964 (2.8x MSRP))

More pipelines (2304 vs 1920)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 6 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

23.72% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (12 nm vs 14 nm)

Less power consumption (160 Watt vs 185 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (336.0 GB/s vs 256.0 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon RX 580 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 .

AMD Radeon RX 580 versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 performance benchmarks comparison

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