NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon RX 540
            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
            
                $599
            
        
    
            AMD Radeon RX 540
            
                
            
        
    | 2304 Shaders 8GB GDDR6 1620MHz | 512 Shaders 2GB GDDR5 1219MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 238.88 TOPS INT4 Tensor | Peak AI Performance 1.25 TFLOPS FP16 | 
| FP32 7.47 TFLOPS | FP32 1.25 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 14.93 TFLOPS | FP16 1.25 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | 
| TDP 175W | TDP Unknown | 
| Power Connectors - 1x 8-Pin - - | - - - - - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | |
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL 85,745 28% | GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB5 CUDA 95,645 27% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Vulkan 73,005 36% | GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| OCT 2020.1 245 32% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal N/A 0% | 
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                                            238.88 TOPS
                                         
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                                            14.93 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            59.72 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            29.86 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            7.47 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            230 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            80 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            29.86 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            238.88 TOPS
                                            
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                                            119.44 TOPS
                                            
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                                            7.47 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            22.5 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            103.68 GPixel/s
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                                            19.504 GPixel/s
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| Texture
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                                            233.28 GTexel/s
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                                            39.008 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerNVIDIA | ManufacturerAMD | 
| Chip DesignerNVIDIA | Chip DesignerAMD | 
| ArchitectureTuring | ArchitectureGCN 4 | 
| FamilyGeForce 20 | FamilyRadeon RX 500 | 
| Codename NV166 TU106 Variant TU106-400A-A1 | Codename Lexa Polaris 12 Variant Polaris 12 XL | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 10/17/2018 | Release Date 4/18/2017 | 
| Foundry TSMC - | Foundry GlobalFoundries - | 
| Fabrication Node 12FFN - | Fabrication Node 14LPP - | 
| Die Size 445 mm² - | Die Size 103 mm² - | 
| Transistor Count 10.8 Billion - | Transistor Count 2.2 Billion - | 
| Transistor Density 24.27M/mm² - | Transistor Density 21.36M/mm² - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 2304 Shaders - | Shading Units 512 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 144 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 32 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 64 ROPs | Render Output Units 16 ROPs | 
| Tensor Cores 288 T-Cores | - - | 
| Ray-Tracing Cores 36 RT-Cores | - - | 
| Streaming Multiprocessors 36 SMs | - - | 
| - - | Compute Units 8 CUs | 
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| Graphics Processing Clusters 3 GPCs | - - | 
| - - 1410MHz Base 1620MHz | - - 1124MHz Base 1219MHz | 
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| L1 32KB/SM Tex 64KB/SM - - | L1 - - 16KB/CU - | 
| L2 4MB Shared | L2 512KB Shared | 
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| 8GB GDDR6 - | 2GB GDDR5 - | 
| Bus Width 256Bit | Bus Width 128Bit | 
| Clock 1750MHz Transfer Rate 14GT/s Bandwidth 448GB/s | Clock 1500MHz Transfer Rate 6GT/s Bandwidth 96GB/s | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP 175W | TDP Unknown | 
| Temp 89°C Max | - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - - 1x DVI-D Dual-Link - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.0 - 1x USB-C + DP - | - - - - - - - - - - 1x DVI-D Dual-Link - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.0 - - - | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 5120x2880 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - FreeSync - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Not Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 4 | Multi Monitor Support 3 | 
| Content Protection HDCP 2.2 | Content Protection HDCP 2.2 | 
| Model NVENC 7 | Model VCE 3.4 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model NVDEC 4 | Model UVD 6.3 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_0 | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.2 | OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.1 Vulkan 1.3 | 
| Shader Model 6.6 CUDA 7.5 - - PureVideo HD VP10 VDPAU Feature Set J | Shader Model 6.7 - - GFX 8 - - - - | 
| - - - 2x Fans | - - - 1x Fan | 
| Power Connectors - - - 1x 8-Pin - - - | - - - - - - - - | 
| Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 3.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 3.0 PCIe Lanes 8 | 
| - - - - | Multi GPU Support Supported Type CrossFire XDMA | 
| Height 112.6 mm (4.43 in) Width 228.6 mm (9 in) Depth 35 mm (1.38 in) | Height 110 mm (4.33 in) Width 145 mm (5.71 in) Depth 37 mm (1.46 in) | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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