AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 12GB VRAM RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation 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 110W)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1665MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation +972%

24.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2023

Solar System

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

58

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

7424

80

TMUs

232

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

386.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

24.72 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.72 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

386.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

AD104

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

110W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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