GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile vs Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameBroadwayGB207
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8002560
Core clock speed800 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate32.00201.6
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPS12.9 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4080
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 5.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s224.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 115 Watt

HD 6970M Rebrand has 53.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 5050 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand
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