AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 95% (1755MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile +290%

8.986 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2023

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1455 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.24 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

140.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.986 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.986 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

140.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

AD107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

159 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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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