NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1125MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +111%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

-

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Wimbledon

-

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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