Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
January 2022
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1552 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
102.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
128 Bit Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
11.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2