AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1057MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile +231%

4.329 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

May 2021

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

712 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1057 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.82 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.65 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.329 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.329 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

67.65 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GA107

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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