NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q AMD Radeon RX 6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M 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

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 86% (2400MHz vs 1290MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +168%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

5120

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

80

ROPs

32

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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