Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 580 2048SP - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Polaris 20
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
October 2018
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1284 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1168 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
-
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
164.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
8 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131