Radeon HD 6970M X2 and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970M X2

GeForce RTX 5080

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

Blackcomb

GB203

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

2025 (recently)

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

846.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.6 GB/s

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

9.1

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3