Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Radeon HD 7970
5405
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
16367
Radeon HD 7970
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
December 2021
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1650 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2176
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
184 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
224.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
264 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
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-