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

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1492MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/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 Refresh +367%

6.111 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jul 2022

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1237 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

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

47.74 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.111 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.111 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

95.49 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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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