NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1290MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +397%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

40

SM Count

-

5120

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

ROPs

48

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM204

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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