
Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
10038
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
N18E-G1 MAX-Q TU106
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
January 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1185 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
975 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1920
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
142.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
11000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
-
+