GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh sales 16 June 2020. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 352.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 115 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	TU106B
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	16 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	900 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1125 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	10,800 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	115 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	162.0	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	5.184 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	64	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	144	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	288	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	36	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	352.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2
CUDA	7.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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