NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1290MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +1085%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

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

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Blackcomb

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

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

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6350A

5

NVIDIA GeForce MX350 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7450A

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8750M