AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 3GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7500 XT +148%

9.421 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2011

Navi III

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1452 MHz

Base Clock

-

2300 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

216.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

73.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

147.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

18.84 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.421 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

294.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 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

1x 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

Tahiti

Navi 33

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

204 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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