Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
12990
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Neptune
GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
142.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3