AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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 RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2430MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (263W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1363%

37.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/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

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

263W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Navi 32

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

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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