AMD Radeon HD 7970M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

366
Place in performance rating
14
GCN
Architecture
Ampere
Wimbledon
Code name
no data
Laptop
Type
no data
1 May 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
12 January 2021 (less than a year ago)
$338
Price now
no data
2.25
Value for money
no data
Wimbledon XT
GPU code name
GN20-E7 GA104
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1280
Pipelines
no data
850 MHz
Core clock speed
780 - 1100 MHz
2,800 million
Transistor count
no data
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
100 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
68.00
Texture fill rate
296.6
2,176 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
1280
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6144
no data
Boost clock speed
1245 - 1710 MHz
2,800 million
Number of transistors
17,400 million
100 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
115 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data
large
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR6
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
153.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
384.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
no data
4.6
OpenGL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 7970M or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7970M

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

57.19% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (8 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (16 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (384.0 GB/s vs 153.6 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon HD 7970M or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile .

AMD Radeon HD 7970M versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

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