NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh +175%

5.99 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

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Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 20 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1005 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

74.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

187.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

11.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.990 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

187.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106B

GPU Name

Wimbledon

N18E-G1-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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