GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated129
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data25.68
Power efficiencyno data16.81
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCypressTU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 January 2013 (12 years ago)17 October 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

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Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16002304
Core clock speed850 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1620 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate68.00233.3
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS7.465 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36
L1 Cache160 KB2.3 MB
L2 Cache512 KB4 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length282 mm229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1050 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 January 2013 17 October 2018
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm

RTX 2070 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

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