AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 330W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock2435MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX +557%

24.93 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2075 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2435 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

80

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

311.7 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

779.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

49.87 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.93 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.558 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 21

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTXH (215-121000247)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

330W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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