NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +164%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 20

Generation

Evergreen

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

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

1600

136

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

188W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Cypress

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

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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