GPU Comparison

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AMD

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

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 2070

CORE STATE TU106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1620 MHz

TDP 175 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,569

geekbench_opencl

N/A

88,108

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

83,291

passmark_directx_10

N/A

111

passmark_directx_11

N/A

129

passmark_directx_12

N/A

60

passmark_directx_9

N/A

211

passmark_g2d

N/A

819

passmark_g3d

N/A

16,094

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

6,411

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 8970M

RTX 2070

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

2,304 +80.0%

Shaders

1,280

2,304 +80.0%

TMUs

80

144 +80.0%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

20

—

SM Count

—

36

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1620 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

8,192 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

103.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.304 TFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

233.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

14.93 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

36

Tensor Cores

—

288

Power

TDP

100 W

175 W

TDP (W)

100

175 +75.0%

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

—

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Turing

GPU Name

Neptune

TU106

Generation

Solar System (HD 8900M)

GeForce 20

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

Dual-slot

Length

—

229 mm 9 inches

Height

—

113 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

499 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

London

GeForce 10

Successor

Gem System

GeForce 30

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