GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated164
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.90
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1GA104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (10 years ago)12 January 2021 (4 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 cores125120
Core clock speed300 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data125 Watt
Texture fill rateno data249.6
Floating-point processing powerno data15.97 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40
L1 Cacheno data5 MB
L2 Cacheno data4 MB

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 sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm

RTX 3070 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

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