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

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1035MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q +129%

5.299 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2021

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

735 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1035 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.12 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.80 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.299 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.299 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

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

8.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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

6.7

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