AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
213
142
118
87
85
49
41
24
The Witcher 3
208
183
139
72
81
67
47
24
Counter-Strike 2
302
208
149
81
135
94
65
30
Far Cry 6
172
148
133
83
70
61
45
21
Hogwarts Legacy
130
105
83
46
43
36
27
14
COD Modern Warfare 3
183
177
130
84
53
47
31
21
Ghost of Tsushima
131
111
91
55
41
32
23
13
Cyberpunk 2077
148
129
87
42
44
41
22
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
225
205
156
82
78
72
47
22
Avg FPS
1080p High19070
1080p Ultra15655
1440p Ultra12139
4K Ultra7020
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
20263
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
5789
Time Spy207815960
Solar Bay8674125955
Port Royal105193328
Fire Strike5732315850
Night Raid15975962399
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
124121
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
73982
Background Blur231.6 frames/s150.7 frames/s
Face Detection152.5 frames/s75.5 frames/s
Horizon Detection4.26 Gpix/sec2.83 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection5.75 Gpix/sec3.68 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur5.87 Gpix/sec4.08 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.12 Gpix/sec0.89 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching618.7 Gpix/sec257.7 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics17973.9 fps9069.6 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
26727
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
11353
G2D Mark1051540
DirectX 11278 fps96 fps
DirectX 12113 fps39 fps
GPU Compute14962 Ops/s3992 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
305.2 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
59.7 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)1379.6 fps326.8 fps
Car Chase1317.5 fps290.3 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)1205.3 fps264.8 fps
T-Rex4360 fps1326.4 fps
ALU 26645 fps1494.6 fps
Driver Overhead 2325.2 fps202.7 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation3954.81656.1

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced December, 8, 2020 January, 29, 2019
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Codename Navi 21 TU106 (N18E-G1-B)
Price 999 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 1825 MHz 960 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2250 MHz 1175-1200 MHz
Shader Units 5120 1920
TMUs 320 120
ROPs 128 48
Execution Units n/a 30
Ray Tracing Cores 80 30
Tensor Cores n/a 240
L1 cache 128 KB/core 64 KB/core
L2 cache 4000 KB/core 3000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 288 Gpix/sec 56-58 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 720 GTex/s 141-144 GTex/s
FLOPS 23 TFLOPS 4.5-4.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 300 W 80-115 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 7 nm 12 nm
Transistor Size 520 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor count 26 billion 10.8 billion
Transistor density 50 MTr/mm² 24.27 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 2000 MHz 1375 MHz
Bus 256 bit 192 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 16000 MB/s 11000 MB/s
Memory Size 16 GB 6 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
512 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
264 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 7.5
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT the clear winner in this comparison.

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