AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1680MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +49%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1920

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU106

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

160W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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