NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +1260%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

Radeon R600

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

901 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

34

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2176

Shading Units

320

136

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

R680

TU106-410-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

165W

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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