Radeon HD 6970 X2 and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970 X2

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Antilles

AD103-400-A1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2024

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

3x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2550 MHz

Core clock speed

880 MHz

2295 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

10240

Power consumption (TDP)

375 Watt

320 Watt

Texture fill rate

84.48

816.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5.5 GB/s

23000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

716.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3