NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1492MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB +231%

7.639 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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

1237 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1492 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

119.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

7.639 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.639 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

119.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Neptune

GN20-P0-R-K2

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

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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