Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

Neptune CF

Polaris 30

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2012

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

FreeSync