AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 6600 AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 155% (2491MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (132W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6600 +198%

8.928 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2021

Release Date

Nov 2012

Navi II

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1626 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

2491 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

24

1792

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

159.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

279.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

17.86 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.928 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

558.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

132W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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