NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB 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 GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +210%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

-

990 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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