AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1185MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q +150%

5.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

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

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.84 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

170.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.92 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.460 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

170.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

TU106

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N18E-G2-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

90W

-

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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