NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4831 points
814% significantly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

106 FPS
94 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS
66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754 points
1329% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points
1450% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz
86% significantly higher boost clock speed
900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
499% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586
322nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon HD 6870 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6870 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 is better than the Radeon HD 6870.

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