AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1425MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/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 Mobile +374%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

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

68.40 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

60-115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

2

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q Refresh

3

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

4

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition

5

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 845M

6

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

7

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

8

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

9

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon E6465

10

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game