NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1185MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +97%

4.55 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

May 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

850 MHz

1185 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/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

56.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

9.101 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Neptune

N18E-G1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

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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