GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh vs Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePitcairnTU106B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 January 2013 (11 years ago)16 June 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 cores12802304
Core clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1125 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate80.00162.0
Floating-point processing power2.56 TFLOPS5.184 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80144
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s352.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2013 16 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 52.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8870 OEM and GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8870 OEM is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook one.


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