NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Specifications of GPUs

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of the characteristics and performance of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT video cards. This comparison will help you determine which one best suits your needs.

Basic

Label Name
NVIDIA
AMD
Launch Date
December 2021
March 2021
Platform
Desktop
Desktop
Model Name
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Generation
GeForce 20
Navi II
Base Clock
1470MHz
2321MHz
Boost Clock
1650MHz
2581MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
2176
2560
SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
34
-
Transistors
10,800 million
17,200 million
RT Cores
34
40
Compute Units
-
40
Tensor Cores
?
Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.
272
-
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
136
160
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
3MB
3MB
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
7 nm
Architecture
Turing
RDNA 2.0
TDP
184W
230W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
12GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
192bit
192bit
Memory Clock
1750MHz
2000MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
336.0 GB/s
384.0 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
79.20 GPixel/s
165.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
224.4 GTexel/s
413.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
14.36 TFLOPS
26.43 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
224.4 GFLOPS
825.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
7.324 TFlops
13.206 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
7.5
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
48
64
Shader Model
6.6
6.5
Suggested PSU
450W
550W

Advantages

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
  • Newer Launch Date: December 2021 (December 2021 vs March 2021)
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Radeon RX 6700 XT
  • Higher Boost Clock: 2581MHz (1650MHz vs 2581MHz)
  • More Shading Units: 2560 (2176 vs 2560)
  • Higher Bandwidth: 384.0 GB/s (336.0 GB/s vs 384.0 GB/s)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
31 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+71% 53 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
59 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+66% 98 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
89 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+56% 139 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
28 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+43% 40 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
33 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+48% 49 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
47 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+60% 75 Fps

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
46 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+57% 72 Fps

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
84 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+70% 143 Fps

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
117 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+58% 185 Fps

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
58 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+50% 87 Fps

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
88 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+20% 106 Fps

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+5% 173 Fps
Radeon RX 6700 XT
165 Fps

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
7.324 TFlops
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+80% 13.206 TFlops

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
8024
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+60% 12821

Blender

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+18% 1850
Radeon RX 6700 XT
1566

SiliconCat Rating

177
Ranks 177 among Desktop GPU on our website
360
Ranks 360 among all GPU on our website
106
Ranks 106 among Desktop GPU on our website
215
Ranks 215 among all GPU on our website
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
Radeon RX 6700 XT

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