NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1680MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +115%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 20

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/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

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

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

Board Design

160W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 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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