Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Navi 24
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
January 2022
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
2610 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
-
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
8 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
-
2.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.3