NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +178%

6.451 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 20

Generation

Evergreen

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

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1600

120

TMUs

80

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

23.20 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Hemlock

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

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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