AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +165%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Unknown

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

24

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Antilles

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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