MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO
vs
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (Turing) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 496 GB/s.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is based on the AMD Radeon RX 590 (GCN 4) and has 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

GPU

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO has the TU104 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Turing architecture.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is based on the graphics chip Polaris 30 XT, which comes from the GCN 4 architecture.
MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO GPU MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
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 graphics memory of the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO clocks at 1.938 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 15.5 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is 8.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 2.000 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.938 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
15.5 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
496 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.605 GHz Base Clock 1.469 GHz
1.815 GHz Boost Clock 1.565 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 215 W.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC has 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 220 W.

215 W TDP 220 W
-- TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO is equipped with a total of 3 Axial main fans.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
1 x 90 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

With the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

328 mm Length 278 mm
140 mm Height 143 mm
57 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1522 g Weight 873 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING Z TRIO has been manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers since Q4/2019.

The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC came on the market in Q3/2019 and will have a structure width of 14 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no --
Q4/2019 Release date Q3/2019
499 $ (Reference) Launch Price 299 $
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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