NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q 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 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1230MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +586%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

1230 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

177.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

11.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

177.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Saturn

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

190 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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