Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
N18E-G1 TU106
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
January 2019
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
960 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
-
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1920
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
80-90 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
144.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
6 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
11.1
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
VR Ready
-
+