GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8970M
CORE STATE
Neptune
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
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 8970M
RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,920
+50.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,920
+50.0%
TMUs
80
120
+50.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
20
—
SM Count
—
30
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1005 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1560 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
1375 MHz
11 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
6,144
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
74.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
187.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
5.990 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
187.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
11.98 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
30
Tensor Cores
—
240
Power
TDP
100 W
65 W
TDP (W)
100
65
-35.0%
Power Connectors
—
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
GPU Name
Neptune
TU106B
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
GeForce 20 Mobile
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
10,800 million
Die Size
212 mm²
445 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / 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
MXM Module
MXM Module
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
GeForce 10 Mobile
Successor
Gem System
GeForce 30 Mobile