GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q vs Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking969not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.99no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCarrizoGA104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores3845120
Core clock speedno data780 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1290 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data206.4
Floating-point processing powerno data13.21 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedlarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 80 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has 566.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3070 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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