AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q +358%

5.99 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Apr 2020

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

960

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.98 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.990 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

187.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

TU104

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N18E-G3R

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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