NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +86%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

-

990 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

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

27.20 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Wimbledon

-

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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