AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

GPU · Specs Compare

GPU AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD · 2013-01

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

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jan 2013

Dec 2021

Generation

Sea Islands

GeForce 20

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

1750 MHz

Base Clock

—

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1650 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

3GB

12GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384bit

192bit

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

336.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

—

Shading Units

2048

2176

TMUs

128

136

ROPs

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

3 MB

SM Count

—

Tensor Cores

—

272

RT Cores

—

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

79.20 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

—

14.36 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU106

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT(215-0821060)

TU106-300-KA-A1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Turing

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

4.313 billion

10.8 billion

Die Size

352 mm²

445 mm²

Board Design

TDP

250W

184W

Suggested PSU

600 W

450 W

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

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

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

CUDA

—

7.5

Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

—

8,024

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

—

3,697

3DMark Speed Way

—

1,572

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

—

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

—

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

—

Blender

—

1,893

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