GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh
Radeon HD 8950 OEM
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
TU106B
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2019
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1200 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
-
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
10,800 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
144.0
103.6
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
10824 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
259.8 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
7.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.140
1.2.131