GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G and the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and has 2560 texture shaders and 40 execution units.

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is based on AMD Radeon RX 590, which has 2304 shaders and 36 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Based on AMD Radeon RX 590
TU104 GPU Chip Polaris 30 XT
Turing Architecture GCN 4
40 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
2560 Shader 2304
64 Render Output Units 32
160 Texture Units 144
40 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 can access 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.605 GHz. The base frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is 1.469 GHz.

1.605 GHz Base Clock 1.469 GHz
1.770 GHz Boost Clock 1.545 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G is 215 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has a TDP of 225 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

215 W TDP 225 W
-- TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 82 mm Fan 1 2 x 95 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G is 286 mm long, 114 mm high and 50 mm wide.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 is 230 mm long, 125 mm high and 40 mm wide.

286 mm Length 230 mm
114 mm Height 125 mm
50 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE 3X 8G was released in Q3/2019 at a price of 499 $ (Reference).

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 590 8G G5 was introduced in Q4/2018 at a price of 279 $.

GV-N207SWF3-8GD Part-no 11289-06
Q3/2019 Release date Q4/2018
499 $ (Reference) Launch Price 279 $
12 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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