Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 2060 Super - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce RTX 2060 Super

Radeon HD 7870

4779

GeForce RTX 2060 Super

17056

Radeon HD 7870

GeForce RTX 2060 Super

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Pitcairn XT

Turing TU106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2012

July 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1650 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

1470 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

Texture fill rate

80.00

224.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

448.0 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

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

VR Ready