NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

GPU · Specs Compare

GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB NVIDIA · 2021-12

GPU AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD · 2013-01

Graphics Card

Release Date

Dec 2021

Jan 2013

Generation

GeForce 20

Northern Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1470 MHz

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Boost Clock

1650 MHz

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Memory Clock

1750 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

12GB

1024MB

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192bit

256bit

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

134.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

—

Shading Units

2176

1600

TMUs

136

ROPs

Tensor Cores

272

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RT Cores

—

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

8 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

3 MB

512 KB

Compute Units

—

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

27.20 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

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FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

TU106

Cypress

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Cypress XT(215-0735033)

Architecture

Turing

TeraScale 2

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

12 nm

40 nm

Transistors

10.8 billion

2.154 billion

Die Size

445 mm²

334 mm²

Board Design

TDP

184W

175W

Suggested PSU

450 W

Outputs

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

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

CUDA

7.5

—

Shader Model

6.6

5.0

Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

8,024

—

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

3,697

—

3DMark Speed Way

1,572

—

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

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Blender

1,893

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▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.