That doesn't mean the memory subsystems of the GPUs are the same, however. On the memory side of things, both GPUs feature 8GB of GDDR6 RAM clocked at 14 Gbps on a 256-bit bus, giving them the same bandwidth. That's a 77% larger die, again for only 5% more transistors-not that die size or process technology matter to the end user, but they can affect power use, cost and even performance. It only has a 'few' more transistors,10.8 billion (that’s a half billion, but not a big difference percentage-wise), but the die size is 445 mm2. In contrast, the RTX 2060 Super uses TSMC's older 12nm finFET process. TSMC's 7nm finFET process allows AMD to stuff approximately 10.3 billion transistors into the Navi 10 die that measures just 251 mm2. That's a 25 percent advantage for AMD, but (spoiler!) it almost never shows up to that level in games.ĪMD's RX 5700 XT is also the first 'real' 7nm GPU-we don't really count the Radeon VII, since it was late to the party, based around an old architecture, and overall couldn't match Nvidia's existing cards.
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Still, on paper the RX 5700 XT has 9.0 TFLOPS and 448 GBps of bandwidth going up against the RTX 2060 Super's 7.2 TFLOPS and 448 GBps. Right now AMD has nothing that can beat the RTX 2070 Super and above.Ĭomparing theoretical performance based on paper specs is typically a fool's errand, as architectural details come into play. If you want something more potent, you'll need to either wait for AMD to release its next-gen Navi 20/21 GPUs - which are supposed to include hardware ray tracing functionality as well - or look at Nvidia's more expensive RTX models. As for stepping up, the only faster card from AMD right now is the Radeon VII, which is expensive, power hungry and not actually much faster than the RX 5700 XT.
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You can also step down one rung and look at the Radeon RX 5700 and GeForce RTX 2060, or the Radeon RX 5600 XT if you’re going to stick to 1080p ultra or 1440p medium settings. Similar previous-generation cards like the GTX 970, GTX 1070, R9 390 and RX Vega 56 have all sold well. You can get great performance at 1440p with high settings, or 1080p ultra, without blowing up your build budget. $400 is an important price point as well, as going higher up the performance ladder typically brings diminishing returns.
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AMD's card features a Navi 10 GPU with a new RDNA architecture, while Nvidia's card is effectively a refresh of 2018's RTX 2070-the same TU106 GPU with slightly fewer CUDA cores enabled, but with a lower price that makes it the better bargain. Both the RTX 2060 Super and RX 5700 XT were introduced in the summer of 2019.