Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

N18E-G2 MAX-Q TU106

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2012

January 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1185-1305 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

885-1080 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

10,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

80-90 Watt

Texture fill rate

170.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

384.0 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