AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 151% (2635MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (176W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 280.3GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6650 XT +150%

10.79 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6650 XT

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Jun 2012

Navi II

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2055 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2635 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

2190 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

280.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

32

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

168.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

337.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

21.59 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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10.79 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

674.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 23 KXT (215-130000136)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

176W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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