AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT AMD Radeon RX 6700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 10GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 151% (2450MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 +276%

11.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6700

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Jun 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1941 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

2450 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

36

1536

Shading Units

2304

96

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

156.8 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

352.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.58 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.29 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

705.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 22

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XTL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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