AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1260MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile +712%

18.71 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

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

810 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1260 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

58

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

7424

80

TMUs

232

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

292.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.71 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.71 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

292.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GA103S

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GN20-E8-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

496 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

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

6.5

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