NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q 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 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

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

6464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q +1434%

20.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

795 MHz

Base Clock

-

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

58

SM Count

-

7424

Shading Units

960

232

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

32

232

Tensor Cores

-

58

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

313.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

20.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

313.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Blackcomb

GN21-X9

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

295 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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