Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
12926
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Neptune
GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1702 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
817 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
72.00
171.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
336.0 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