NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER NVIDIA · 2026-01
GPU AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD · 2013-05
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 50
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2295 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
24GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.02TB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
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Shading Units
10752
1280
TMUs
336
80
ROPs
112
32
Tensor Cores
336
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RT Cores
84
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
64 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
879.3 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
56.28 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
56.28 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
879.3 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB203
Neptune
GPU Variant
GB203-450-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
45.6 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
378 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
415W
100W
Suggested PSU
800 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
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Shader Model
6.9
5.1
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.