AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1282MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +327%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GA106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

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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