AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (990MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +75%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jul 2022

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

622 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GA107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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