NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +138%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Dec 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

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1920

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Cayman

TU104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

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