AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock2300MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7500 XT +248%

9.421 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2010

Navi III

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1452 MHz

Base Clock

-

2300 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

24

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

73.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

147.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

18.84 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.421 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

294.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 33

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 33

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

13.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

204 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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