AMD Radeon RX 7900M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1110 MHz
  • Around 34% higher boost clock speed: 2090 MHz vs 1560 MHz
  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 601.9 GTexel/s vs 249.6 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Launch date 19 Oct 2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed 1825 MHz vs 1110 MHz
Boost clock speed 2090 MHz vs 1560 MHz
Texture fill rate 601.9 GTexel/s vs 249.6 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 4608
  • Around 57% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 180 Watt
Pipelines 5120 vs 4608
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Name AMD Radeon RX 7900M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 884
PassMark - G3D Mark 22112
Geekbench - OpenCL 104371
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 26458
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 26458
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 12868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 12868
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20579
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20579

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7900M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
Code name Navi 31 GA104
Launch date 19 Oct 2023 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating 44 45
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2090 MHz 1560 MHz
Compute units 72
Core clock speed 1825 MHz 1110 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 4608 5120
Pixel fill rate 267.5 GPixel/s 124.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 601.9 GTexel/s 249.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt 115 Watt
Transistor count 57700 million 17400 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 249.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.97 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.97 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Height PCIe 4.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 576.0 GB/s 448.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready