Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

GN20-S7

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2012

December 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1477 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

30-45 Watt

Texture fill rate

189.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

11.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

VR Ready