NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M 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 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1185MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +344%

4.55 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

975 MHz

Base Clock

-

1185 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1920

Shading Units

640

120

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

9.101 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Heathrow

N18E-G1

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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