Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages
Lower TDP (151W vs 215W)
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6870
2016
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
+349%
9062
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jul 2019
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1605 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
1120
Shading Units
2560
56
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
320
-
RT Cores
40
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
28.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
113.3 GPixel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
283.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
18.12 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.062 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
283.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
151W
TDP
215W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Barts
GPU Name
TU104
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
GPU Variant
TU104-410-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
12 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
13.6 billion
255 mm²
Die Size
545 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.0
Shader Model
6.6
