Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
16367
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
December 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1650 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2176
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
184 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
224.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3