AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1395MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q +993%

14.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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RTX A4000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2021

Vancouver

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

5120

48

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

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.6 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

223.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.28 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.28 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

223.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GA104

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

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

75W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

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

6.7

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