AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (259.8GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh +252%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2019

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

960 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1353 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

259.8GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

960

Shading Units

1920

48

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.216 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

TU106B

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

445 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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