NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1290MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +397%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

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GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1290 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.2 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

206.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

13.21 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-770-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.6

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