Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

GN20-P1

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2012

May 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1485 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1222 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

118.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

11.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.2