AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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AMD Radeon RX 7600 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7600 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2655MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

Lower TDP (165W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7600 +474%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7600

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Aug 2012

Navi III

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1720 MHz

Base Clock

-

2655 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/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

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

43.50 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

679.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 33

GPU Name

New Zealand

Navi 33 XL

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

204 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 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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