Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
9396
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Neptune
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1552 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
102.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2