Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce RTX 2060 Super - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce RTX 2060 Super
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce RTX 2060 Super
17056
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce RTX 2060 Super
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
Turing TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
July 2019
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
Core clock speed
-
1470 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
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
224.4
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-