GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh vs ATI Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRV250TU106B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 March 2004 (20 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 years ago)

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 coresno data1920
Core clock speed275 MHz960 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors36 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate1.100144.0
Floating-point processing powerno data4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs4120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed275 MHz1353 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.8 GB/s259.8 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.44.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 March 2004 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 115 Watt

ATI 9000 PRO Mac Edition has 310.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook one.


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