Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 6700 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Navi 22
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
March 2021
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
2581 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
2321 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
-
17,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
230 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
413.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
12 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
384.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
-
2.1
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2