AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +113%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

16

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 24

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

107W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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