AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1260MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

6464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile +1332%

18.71 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

810 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1260 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

58

960

Shading Units

7424

48

TMUs

232

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

292.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.71 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.71 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

292.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GA103S

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

GN20-E8-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.5

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