NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +397%

13.45 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

616.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

4352

Shading Units

1536

272

TMUs

96

88

ROPs

32

544

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

136.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

420.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

26.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.45 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

420.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Cayman

TU102-300A-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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