NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1650MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (184W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +116%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

1792

136

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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