NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +737%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/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

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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