
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon HD 8970M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Neptune
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
May 2013
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
11.1
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131