Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Quadro RTX 6000 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Quadro RTX 6000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
TU102
Market segment
Laptop
Workstation
Release date
May 2012
August 2018
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1440 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
-
18,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
260 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
509.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
24 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
672.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
DirectX
11.1
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131