AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1185MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +97%

4.55 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2020

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

975 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.88 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.101 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.550 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N18E-G1

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

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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