AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Mar 2020
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Base Clock
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1260 MHz
Boost Clock
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1455 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
352.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
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Shading Units
1536
2304
TMUs
96
144
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
36
Tensor Cores
—
288
RT Cores
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36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
93.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
209.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
6.705 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
209.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
13.41 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
TU106B
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
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Architecture
TeraScale 3
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
445 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
115W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
CUDA
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7.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.