GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon HD 3850 X3 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

Radeon HD 3850 X3

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

TU106B

RV670

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1125 MHz

Core clock speed

669 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

10,800 million

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

320

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt

145 Watt

Texture fill rate

162.0

10.70

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

11 GB/s

1700 MBps

Memory bandwidth

352.0 GB/s

54.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DVI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

10.1 (10_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3 (full) Shader Model6.54.1

Vulkan

1.2

N/A