AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Jan 2020
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1185 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
1920
TMUs
128
120
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
3 MB
SM Count
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30
Tensor Cores
—
240
RT Cores
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30
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
56.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
4.550 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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9.101 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU106
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
N18E-G1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
445 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
65W
Suggested PSU
700 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
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7.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.