NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Solar System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1425 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
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Shading Units
3840
1280
TMUs
120
80
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
120
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RT Cores
30
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
68.40 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
171.0 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
10.94 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
10.94 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
171.0 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Neptune
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
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Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Board Design
TDP
60-115W
100W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Benchmark
Blender
2,467
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.