NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
May 2013
Generation
Ampere-MW
Solar System
Type
Professional
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
600 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1230 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
32
-
Shading Units
4096
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
32
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
78.72 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
157.4 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
10.08 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
10.08 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.4 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Neptune
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Board Design
TDP
70W
100W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
-
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
-
Shader Model
6.8
5.1