AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 8800 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock2430MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 8800 XT +425%

19.91 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 8800 XT

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2013

Navi IV(RX 8000)

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1295 MHz

Base Clock

-

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

32

-

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

622.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

39.81 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

19.91 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 48

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 48 XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

RDNA 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

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

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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