AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +137%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

TU106

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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