AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
In the PassMark G3D benchmark the AMD Radeon VII scores 16,227 against 16,062 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, making it about 1 percent faster than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070.
The AMD Radeon VII carries more video memory (16 GB against 8 GB), which matters at higher resolutions and for larger workloads.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 draws less board power (175 W against 300 W).
Measured as benchmark score per watt, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 is the more efficient of the two (91.8 against 54.1 points per watt).
Comparing 13 specifications that differ between these two cards. Coverage: 10/10 recorded for the AMD Radeon VII, 10/10 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070. Fields neither card records are omitted; fields only one records are shown as "Not recorded".
Specifications compared
| AMD Radeon VII | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Shading units | 3,840 | 2,304 |
| Compute units | 60 | Not recorded |
| Ray tracing cores | Not recorded | 36 |
| Tensor cores | Not recorded | 288 |
| Base clock | 1.40 GHz | 1.41 GHz |
| Boost clock | 1.75 GHz | 1.62 GHz |
| Memory size | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory type | HBM2 | GDDR6 |
| Memory bus width | 4096-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,024.0 GB/s | 448.0 GB/s |
| Board power | 300 W | 175 W |
| Process node | Not recorded | 12 nm |
| Die size | 331 mm² | 445 mm² |
| Transistors | 13,230 M | 10,800 M |
| Architecture | GCN | Turing |
| Launch date | 2019-02-07 | 2018-10-17 |
| PassMark G3D | 16,227 | 16,062 |