AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

amd

Brand

8GB HBM2

Memory

3584

Cores

409.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX Vega 56

N/A Aug 2017 View Details

nvidia

Brand

6GB GDDR6

Memory

1920

Cores

336 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 2060

N/A Jan 2019 View Details

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

8GB HBM2 210W N/A Aug 2017

Radeon RX Vega 56

$399 • Aug 2017

GeForce RTX 2060

$349 • Jan 2019

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

6GB GDDR6 160W N/A Jan 2019

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Memory Size	8 GB	6 GB
Memory Type	HBM2	GDDR6
TDP	210 W	160 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1471 MHz	1680 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	336 GB/s
Process Size	14nm	12nm
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Turing
Shading Units	3584	1920
RT Cores	N/A	30
TMUs	224	120
ROPs	64	48
Memory Bus	2048-bit	192-bit
Memory Clock	800 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	94.14 GPixel/s	80.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	409.6 GTexel/s	336 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	10.54 GFLOPS	6.451 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	3.00 MB
Die Size	495 mm²	445 mm²
Transistors	12500 Million	10800 Million
Required PSU	550 W	450 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	GlobalFoundries	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

6723

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

7379 (+10%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

47815

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

78934 (+65%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

81.2 FPS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

89.8 FPS (+11%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

13099

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

14122 (+8%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Game Benchmarks Comparison (219 benchmarks)

King's Bounty II

8 2021 • Adventure, RPG, Strategy • Fulqrum Games

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+24%)

AVG 110 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 80 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+26%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+21%)

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

Winner

Loser

HUMANKIND

8.3 2021 • Strategy • AMPLITUDE Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+23%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+17%)

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+13%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Forgotten City

8.5 2021 • Adventure, Indie, RPG • Modern Storyteller

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+22%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+27%)

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+21%)

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Ascent

8 2021 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Neon Giant

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+13%)

AVG 105 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+9%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+7%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

Total War ROME REMASTERED

7.5 2021 • Strategy • Creative Assembly, Feral Interactive

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+17%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+16%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+10%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

Demon Skin

8.2 2021 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Ludus future

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+10%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+11%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2060 (+12%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Wins!

Based on 219 benchmarks across 71 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

+7.3%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 2060