NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

8768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation +2403%

32.69 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Aug 2011

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

76

SM Count

-

9728

Shading Units

960

304

TMUs

48

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

188.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

510.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

32.69 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.69 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

510.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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