Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
16367
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
December 2021
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1650 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
2176
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
184 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
224.4
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
336.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-