Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon R9 M370X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon R9 M370X
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Cape Verde
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
May 2015
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
1500 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
640
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
2 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
4500 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
DirectX
11.1
12 (FL 11_1)