NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 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

7102 points

1245% significantly better overall score

528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

149 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

2039% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

2163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

700% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 586

322nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon HD 6870 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 is better than the Radeon HD 6870.

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