NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1395MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A4000 Max Q +993%

14.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2011

Quadro Ampere-M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

40

SM Count

-

5120

Shading Units

960

160

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

32

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

111.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

223.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

14.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.28 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

223.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

392 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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