AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1230MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +392%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

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

735 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1230 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

1280

Shading Units

4608

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.34 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

177.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

AD106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GN21-X6

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

190 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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