ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 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 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +209%

7.181 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2021

Evergreen

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

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

34

1600

Shading Units

2176

80

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

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

184W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

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 Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

TU106

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

445 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

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