NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +498%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

Radeon R700

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

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

800

136

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

RV770

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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