AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

155
Place in performance rating
95
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Value for money (0-100)
35.43
GCN
Architecture
Turing
Neptune CF
Code name
TU106B
Laptop
Type
Laptop
1 May 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
6 January 2019 (2 years ago)
$170
Price now
$1758
35.05
Value for money
5.89
Neptune CF
GPU code name
N18E-G2 TU106
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2560
Pipelines
2304
850 MHz
Core clock speed
1215 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1485 MHz
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Transistor count
10,800 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
200 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
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Texture fill rate
213.8
2560
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
900 MHz
Boost clock speed
1440 MHz
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Number of transistors
10,800 million
200 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
115 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
large
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR6
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Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2x 256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
448.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs
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G-SYNC support
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is the additional functionality.

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VR Ready
+
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Multi Monitor
+
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CUDA
7.5

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
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OpenGL
4.6
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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Shader Model
6.5
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 131 100 85 67 51 29
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 152.65 125.5 114.8 112.5 78.8 42.6
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 206 166 147 113.5 87 50
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 237.25 175.95 119 85.8 59.9 31.6
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 238.3 169.5 157 154 104 54.7
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Cheaper ($170 vs $1758)

More pipelines (2560 vs 2304)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

14.91% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (12 nm vs 28 nm)

Less power consumption (115 Watt vs 200 Watt)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile .

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

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