AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1095MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +393%

6.447 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2019

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

2944

48

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.08 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.89 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.447 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

201.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

TU104

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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