GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 6970

CORE STATE Cayman

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 3

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

CORE STATE TU106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1650 MHz

TDP 175 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,011

geekbench_opencl

N/A

87,670

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

83,503

passmark_directx_10

N/A

111

passmark_directx_11

N/A

130

passmark_directx_12

N/A

61

passmark_directx_9

N/A

218

passmark_g2d

N/A

854

passmark_g3d

N/A

16,462

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

6,721

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6970

RTX 2060 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,536

2,176 +41.7%

Shaders

1,536

2,176 +41.7%

TMUs

96

136 +41.7%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

24

—

SM Count

—

34

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1650 MHz

GPU Clock

880 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

105.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.703 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

675.8 GFLOPS (1:4)

224.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

14.36 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

34

Tensor Cores

—

272

Power

TDP

250 W

175 W

TDP (W)

250

175 -30.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Turing

GPU Name

Cayman

TU106

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6900)

GeForce 20

Process Size

40 nm

12 nm

Transistors

2,640 million

10,800 million

Die Size

389 mm²

445 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.8M / mm²

24.3M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

CUDA

—

7.5

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

286 mm 11.3 inches

229 mm 9 inches

Height

126 mm 5 inches

113 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

369 USD

399 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

GeForce 10

Successor

Southern Islands

GeForce 30

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