AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Jun 2025
Generation
Solar System
Navi IV
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
3130 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
322.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
32
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
132
Tensor Cores
—
528
RT Cores
—
32
L3 Cache
—
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
200.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
400.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
25.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
801.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
51.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
Navi 44
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Navi 44 XT(215-176400102)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
29.7 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
199 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
150W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b2x DisplayPort 2.1a
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
—
9.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.