NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 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 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1282MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +327%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

276 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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