AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1605MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +277%

8.218 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2023

London

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1605 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.04 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.218 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.218 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

AD107

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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