GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated127
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.22
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameEllesmereGA104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$450 no data

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 cores23045120
Core clock speed1000 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt125 Watt
Texture fill rate155.1249.6
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS15.97 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs144160
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 sizelargelarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 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 amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s448.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 125 Watt

RX 480 Mobile has 25% lower power consumption.

RTX 3070 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
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