AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1245MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +603%

15.3 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

London

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GA104

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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