NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 59% higher core clock speed: 1470 MHz vs 925 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Around 53% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 27.053 vs 17.707

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 July 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1470 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	27.053 vs 17.707

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 88% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2176

Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 2176

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

27.053

17.707

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	16576
PassMark - G2D Mark	859
Geekbench - OpenCL	87091
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	246.191
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3885.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	27.053	17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	165.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1271.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20969
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5567
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5026
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20969
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5567
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5026
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU106	New Zealand
Launch date	2 July 2019	31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	$899
Place in performance rating	145	321
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz
Core clock speed	1470 MHz	925 MHz
CUDA cores	2176
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	89 C
Pipelines	2176	2x 2048
Render output units	64
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10.8 B	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2x 3,789 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Port	1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.435” (112.6mm)
Length	9.0” (228.60mm)	292 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8 pin	3x 8-pin
Width	2-Slot
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready