NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +653%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

-

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

960

120

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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