AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 168% (2815MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +34%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 24

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

107W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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