NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 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: 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1110 MHz vs 925 MHz
117.8x more texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Around 25% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 2x 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
4.3x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1110 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	5120 vs 2x 2048
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.1x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
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
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA104	New Zealand
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	45	321
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz
Core clock speed	1110 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
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
Pipelines	5120	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	124.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2x 3,789 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	3x 8-pin
Length		292 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready