ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 6600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2491MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (132W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2320
Radeon RX 6600
+284%
8928
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Oct 2021
Evergreen
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1626 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2491 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
28
1600
Shading Units
1792
80
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
64
-
RT Cores
28
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
159.4 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
279.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
17.86 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.928 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
558.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
132W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Navi 23
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Navi 23 XL
(215-130000016)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
11.06 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
237 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
