Radeon PRO W6500M vs GeForce RTX 2070

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	96	not rated
Place by popularity	88	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	32.62	no data
Power efficiency	16.46	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	TU106	Navi 24
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	17 October 2018 (6 years ago)	no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	1024
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	1512 MHz
Boost clock speed	1620 MHz	2040 MHz
Number of transistors	10,800 million	5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	25 Watt
Texture fill rate	233.3	130.6
Floating-point processing power	7.465 TFLOPS	4.178 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	144	64
Tensor Cores	288	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	36	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x4
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

+

no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	25 Watt

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