[SOLVED] RTX 2060 KO or RX 5600 XT for Architecture school?

[NovaTronMC]

Hi!
Tomorrow I'm purchasing a GPU upgrade for my GTX 970 which is slowly dying.
My two options are the RTX 2060 KO from EVGA and the RX 5600 XT, where I live the prices are quite different, so there's the doubt. The 2060 KO costs around 370 USD when the RX 5600 XT costs 260 USD.
I plan to use this card to game (1080p) with a 144Hz G-Sync compatible monitor (also has freesync) but more important, I need to be able to comfortably 3D render. I've heard Nvidia cards often do better when rendering due to RTX as well as more support within several software, but almost 100 dollars difference makes me doubt. Software I will be using includes 3DS Max, V-Ray, Rhino, Blender, Lumion and enscape.
Thanks for your time!

 

[Newtonius]

Go with the 2060 KO. Gaming wise they are nearly identical in performance at 1080p but for 3D rendering Nvidia's CUDA architecture is currently the standard. The RX 5000 series are designed primarily for gaming, so you will be lacking in performance when it comes to compute work. However, another interesting thing about the 2060 KO is that the KO variant of the 2060 uses a cut down die of the 2080, meaning while the Die substrate is locked via firmware to only utilize a certain amount of CUDA cores for gaming, it somehow outputs 2080 level performance in compute work, one such work being 3D rendering. Either way you look at it, 2060 > 5600XT for 3D rendering work.