AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 LE and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2495MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (132W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6600 LE +249%

8.942 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 LE

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2023

Release Date

Mar 2012

Navi II

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1626 MHz

Base Clock

-

2495 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

159.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

279.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

17.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.942 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

558.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

132W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

212 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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