AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile +1171%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 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

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

5888

48

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GA104

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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