AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 263W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2430MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1280%

37.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon RX 7800 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

1295 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

60

-

1536

Shading Units

3840

96

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

263W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 32

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

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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