AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X Duo and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1967MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

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

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (400W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo +298%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Aug 2012

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

-

1967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

32

-

3840

Shading Units

2048

240

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

188.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

472.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

30.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

944.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

400W

TDP

500W

800 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

New Zealand

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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