GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh vs Radeon HD 6870M

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGranvilleTU106B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)19 January 2020 (4 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 cores8002304
Core clock speed675 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1485 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate27.00213.8
Floating-point processing power1.08 TFLOPS6.843 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs40144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s448.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 19 January 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 115 Watt

HD 6870M has 130% lower power consumption.

RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870M and GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6870M
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