AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +774%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1860 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

80

-

1536

Shading Units

5120

96

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

335W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 21

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

520 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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