AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1530MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile +189%

6.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

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

1470 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1530 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2176

80

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

97.92 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

208.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

13.32 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.659 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

208.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

TU106-410-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

175W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

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

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

2

AMD Radeon RX 7900M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

3

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

4

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

5

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

7

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

8

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

9

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

10

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon E6460

Related News

1

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

2

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

3

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

4

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

5

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

6

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

7

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

8

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

9

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

10

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience