Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
May 2017
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
-
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
11.1
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
+
VR Ready
-
+