GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
CORE STATE
TU106
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1200 MHz
TDP
115 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8970 OEM
RTX 2060 Mobile
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
1,920
-6.3%
Shaders
2,048
1,920
-6.3%
TMUs
128
120
-6.3%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
30
Clocks
Base Clock
—
960 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1200 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
6,144
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
144.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.608 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
9.216 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
30
Tensor Cores
—
240
Power
TDP
250 W
115 W
TDP (W)
250
115
-54.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU106
Generation
Sea Islands
(HD 8900)
GeForce 20 Mobile
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
10,800 million
Die Size
352 mm²
445 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
24.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
7.5
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
274 mm
10.8 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Southern Islands
GeForce 10 Mobile
Successor
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 30 Mobile