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

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

N18E-G3 TU104

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2012

April 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1560 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1365 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

299.5

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 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