GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon HD 6870 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh
Radeon HD 6870 X2
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
TU106B
Barts
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2019
July 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1200 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
900 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
10,800 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
1120
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
144.0
50.40
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
10824 MHz
4200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
259.8 GB/s
134.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
7.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.5
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.140
N/A