AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1200MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (259.8GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh +364%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2019

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

960 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1353 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

259.8GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

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

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.216 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

115W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

TU106B

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

-

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.6

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