AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 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 RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +1096%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Mar 2023

Vancouver

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

960

Shading Units

4608

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

AD106

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

188 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

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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