NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (259.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh +111%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

960 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1353 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

259.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

144.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

9.216 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU106B

GPU Name

Wimbledon

-

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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