AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile +111%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2019

London

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

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.216 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

TU106

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N18E-G1-KD-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

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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