ATI Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition vs HD 8970M Crossfire

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking348not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.51no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameNeptune CFR423
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2012 (13 years ago)28 October 2005 (19 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560no data
Core clock speed850 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data160 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data8.000
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data32 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data2x DVI

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.19.0b (9_2)
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2012 28 October 2005
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

HD 8970M Crossfire has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire is a notebook graphics card while Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition is a desktop one.

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
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