GeForce RTX 2060 vs ATI Radeon 9700 PRO X4

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated131
Place by popularitynot in top-10016
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data40.44
Power efficiencyno data15.73
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameR300TU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 July 2002 (22 years ago)7 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$349

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data1920
Core clock speed325 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1680 MHz
Number of transistors110 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data160 Watt
Texture fill rate2.600201.6
Floating-point processing powerno data6.451 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs8120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x Molex1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed310 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.84 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DVI1x 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 compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 7 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm

RTX 2060 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

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