AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

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

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +256%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jul 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1470 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

34

1120

Shading Units

2176

56

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

175W

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 Processor

Barts

GPU Name

TU106

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

TU106-410-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

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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