ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2581MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +469%

13.21 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2021

Evergreen

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2321 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

40

-

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

40

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

230W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 22

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

335 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

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