NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1185MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q +110%

5.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

1344

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.84 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

170.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.92 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.460 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

170.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

90W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

TU106

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N18E-G2-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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