AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA RTX 6000D
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Jul 2025
Generation
Solar System
Blackwell PRO W
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1992 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
2430 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1560 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
84GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
448bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
1.40TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
19968
TMUs
80
624
ROPs
32
192
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
128 MB
SM Count
-
156
Tensor Cores
-
624
RT Cores
-
156
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
466.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
1516.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
97.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
1.516 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
97.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GB202
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
600W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Suggested PSU
-
1000 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.9
CUDA
-
12.0