Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

Ampere GA102

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2012

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1667 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1370 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

10240

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

532.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

19000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

912.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.2