NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM 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 late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +151%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

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

32.00 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

175W

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 Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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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