AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2087MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X +323%

16.03 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro W6800X

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2087 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

60

-

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

200.4 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

500.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.06 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.03 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1002 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

Apple MPX

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 21

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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