Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
N18E-G0
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
April 2019
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1335 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1140 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
-
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
128.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
6 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
288.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
11.1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131