AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1650MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +66%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jul 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

34

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2176

128

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU106

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU106-410-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

175W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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