AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1455MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh +191%

6.705 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 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

1260 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

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

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Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.12 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

209.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

13.41 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.705 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

209.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU106B

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

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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