AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

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

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +219%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2020

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

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1120

Shading Units

1920

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

160W

700 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

-

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

TU104

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

545 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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