AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2755MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7600 XT +734%

22.57 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon RX 7600 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2755 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

32

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

32

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

176.3 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

352.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

45.14 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.57 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

705.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 33

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Navi 33 XT (215-163000047)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

190W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

2

AMD Radeon HD 7570 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

4

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R5 435 OEM

5

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

7

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

8

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

9

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

10

AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Related News

1

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

2

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

3

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

4

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

5

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

6

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

7

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

8

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

9

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

10

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future