AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 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 5050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 180% (2520MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile +459%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 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

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GB207

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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