Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

N18E-G3

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2012

April 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1230 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

975 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

90 Watt

Texture fill rate

207.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

11000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

352.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

G-SYNC support

DirectX

11.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.140

VR Ready