AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 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 9070 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock2700MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 260W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 9070 XT +718%

22.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2010

Navi IV(RX 9000)

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2210 MHz

Base Clock

-

2700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

24

-

4096

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

259.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

691.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

44.24 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.12 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

260W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

2x 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

Cayman

Navi 48 XT

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

RDNA 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.64 billion

Unknown

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

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.0

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