AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7600

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 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 7600 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2655MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7600 +704%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7600

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Dec 2010

Navi III

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1720 MHz

Base Clock

-

2655 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

24

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

43.50 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

679.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 33

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 33 XL

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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