NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 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. 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

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 48% higher core clock speed: 1365 MHz vs 925 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 160 Watt vs 500 Watt
2.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.852 vs 17.707

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1365 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.852 vs 17.707

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

2.1x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 1920

Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 1920

Compare benchmarks

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

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

21.852

17.707

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	14149
PassMark - G2D Mark	750
Geekbench - OpenCL	70668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	220.337
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3131.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.852	17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1141.283
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6714
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7489

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU106	New Zealand
Launch date	7 January 2019	31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$349	$899
Place in performance rating	150	321
Price now	$349.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	62.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1680 MHz
Core clock speed	1365 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1920	2x 2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	2
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm	292 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	3x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth		2x 264.0 GB / s