NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1185MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +248%

4.55 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

975 MHz

Base Clock

-

1185 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1920

Shading Units

960

120

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

9.101 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N18E-G1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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