AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 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 7600 XT's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock 2755MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (190W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7600 XT +495%

22.57 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7600 XT

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Jan 2013

Navi III

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980MHz

Base Clock

-

2755MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250MHz

Memory Clock

1375MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/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)

2MB

L2 Cache

768KB

Theoretical Performance

176.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

352.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

45.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.57 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

705.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 33

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 33 XT (215-163000047)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13,300 million

Transistors

4,313 million

204mm²

Die Size

352mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

250W

450W

Suggested PSU

600W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

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

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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