AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh +484%

5.99 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2019

London

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1005 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1920

40

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

74.88 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.98 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.990 TFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

TU106B

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

N18E-G1-KD-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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