Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 7900 XTX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
RDNA 3
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Navi 31 XTX
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
November 2022
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
2270 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
-
57,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
355 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
959.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
24 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
20000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
960.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
-
2.1
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3