AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Jan 2023
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 40 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
795 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
7424
TMUs
128
232
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
48 MB
SM Count
-
58
Tensor Cores
-
232
RT Cores
-
58
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
108.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
313.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
20.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
313.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
AD104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
GN21-X9
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
35.8 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
295 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
60W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
-
8.9