AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1155MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Max Q +156%

5.914 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 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

930 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1155 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

-

SM Count

40

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.92 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.83 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

184.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU104

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

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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