amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1280
Cores153.6 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
nvidia
Brand6GB GDDR6
Memory1920
Cores336 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
$349 • Mar 2012
GeForce RTX 2060
$349 • Jan 2019
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| TDP | 175 W | 160 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | N/A | 1680 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | 336 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 12nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Turing |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1920 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 30 |
| TMUs | 80 | 120 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 32 GPixel/s | 80.64 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 80 GTexel/s | 336 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 2.56 GFLOPS | 6.451 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.50 MB | 3.00 MB |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 445 mm² |
| Transistors | 2800 Million | 10800 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 450 W |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 11.1 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
NVIDIA • 6GB GDDR6
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