NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (990MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +75%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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