AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 XT 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 Clock2755MHz

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 HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7600 XT +495%

22.57 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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Radeon RX 7600 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2024

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2755 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

32

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

32

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

176.3 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

352.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

45.14 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.57 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

705.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 33

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Navi 33 XT (215-163000047)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

190W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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