AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 11 years late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +165%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Dec 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1470 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

2176

96

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

TU106

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

184W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x 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

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

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