NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile +867%

15.97 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

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

1110 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

40

SM Count

-

5120

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

16

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

124.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

15.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

249.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Saturn

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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