NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 2070 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +270%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

36

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

1120

144

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

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 Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Barts

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

255 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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