AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6990M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 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 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1290MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

4000 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990M

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +724%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

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GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1290 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

5120

56

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

22.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.2 GPixel/s

40.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

206.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

13.21 TFLOPS

1.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

206.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GA104

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GPU Variant

GA104-770-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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