NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1185MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +358%

4.55 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

975 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1185 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

30

SM Count

-

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

12.40 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

9.101 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Venus

N18E-G1

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

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

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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