GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 6970
CORE STATE
Cayman
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 3
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh
CORE STATE
TU106B
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1560 MHz
TDP
65 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6970
RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,536
1,920
+25.0%
Shaders
1,536
1,920
+25.0%
TMUs
96
120
+25.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
24
—
SM Count
—
30
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1005 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1560 MHz
GPU Clock
880 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1375 MHz
11 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
6,144
+200.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
74.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
187.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.703 TFLOPS
5.990 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
675.8 GFLOPS (1:4)
187.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
11.98 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
30
Tensor Cores
—
240
Power
TDP
250 W
65 W
TDP (W)
250
65
-74.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Turing
GPU Name
Cayman
TU106B
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
GeForce 20 Mobile
Process Size
40 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2,640 million
10,800 million
Die Size
389 mm²
445 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.8M / mm²
24.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
CUDA
—
7.5
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
286 mm
11.3 inches
—
Height
126 mm
5 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
369 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
GeForce 10 Mobile
Successor
Southern Islands
GeForce 30 Mobile