AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2544MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (245W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700 XT +1201%

35.17 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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Radeon RX 7700 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1435 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2544 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

54

-

1536

Shading Units

3456

96

TMUs

216

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

54

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

244.2 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

549.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

70.34 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.17 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1099 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

245W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 32

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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