NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1057MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile +87%

4.329 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

712 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1057 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/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

33.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

67.65 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

4.329 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.329 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

67.65 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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