AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q 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 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1185MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q +318%

5.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

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

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

960

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.84 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

170.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.92 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.460 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

170.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

90W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

TU106

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N18E-G2-A1

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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