AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +235%

9.062 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Dec 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

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

1536

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.3 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

283.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.12 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.062 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

283.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

TU104

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

TU104-410-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

389 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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