AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +70%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jan 2020

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/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

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

160W

600 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

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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