AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +653%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

817 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

960

Shading Units

3840

48

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GA106

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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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