NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (1695MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +577%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

May 2013

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

4608

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

15.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.62 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

244.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

22.9 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

188 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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