Radeon HD 8970 OEM and GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Tahiti

GN21-X11

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2013

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2040 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

118.4

515.3

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

20000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3