AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1380MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile +590%

7.066 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

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GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Apr 2020

London

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1380 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.32 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

220.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.13 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.066 TFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

220.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

TU104

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

N18E-G2R

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

115W

-

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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