Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon 780M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon 780M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
RDNA 3
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Phoenix
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
January 2023
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
3000 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
4 nm
Number of transistors
-
25,390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
768
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
54 Watt (35 - 54 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
-
139.2
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
-
System Shared
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
System Shared
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
-
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
11.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
-
2.1
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3