NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile 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 3070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile +1122%

15.97 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

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

1110 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

5120

Shading Units

960

160

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

32

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

124.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

15.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

249.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Blackcomb

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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