NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +89%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +251%

8018

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 20

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2176

Shading Units

2048

136

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

184W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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