NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +219%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1920

Shading Units

1120

120

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Barts

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

151W

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 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

2

NVIDIA Quadro M2000M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

3

NVIDIA Quadro P620 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM Rebrand

5

AMD Radeon 780M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6

AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs ATI Radeon HD 4570

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi View

Related News

1

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

2

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

3

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

4

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

5

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

6

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

7

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

8

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

9

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It

10

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months