NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM 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 8 years late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +3490%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

2176

Shading Units

160

136

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Caicos

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

184W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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