NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +192%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Mar 2011

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

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

36

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

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

26.56 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Antilles

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

389 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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