Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
November 2018
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2x1700 Million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
-
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+