AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +210%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 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

622 MHz

-

Boost Clock

990 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

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

31.68 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

8.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

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