NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile 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 2080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1590MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile +306%

9.362 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

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

1380 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1590 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

101.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

292.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

18.72 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.362 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

292.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Neptune

N18E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

545 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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