AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +186%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1408

Shading Units

1920

88

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

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

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

Cayman

GPU Name

TU106

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

389 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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