GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 9070 XT

CORE STATE Navi 48

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2970 MHz

TDP 304 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 4.0

nm

PROCESS 4 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

160,317

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

7,260

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

184,026

passmark_directx_10

N/A

154

passmark_directx_11

N/A

292

passmark_directx_12

N/A

78

passmark_directx_9

N/A

353

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,328

passmark_g3d

N/A

26,795

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

15,864

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RX 9070 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Shaders

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

TMUs

128

256 +100.0%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

32

64 +100.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1660 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2970 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

2518 MHz 20.1 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

16,384 +433.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

644.6 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

768 KB

8 MB

L3 Cache

—

64 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

380.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

760.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

48.66 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

1.521 TFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

97.32 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

64

Matrix Cores

—

128

Power

TDP

250 W

304 W

TDP (W)

250

304 +21.6%

Suggested PSU

600 W

700 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

RDNA 4.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 48

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Navi IV (RX 9000)

Process Size

28 nm

4 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

53,900 million

Die Size

352 mm²

357 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

151.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Navi III

Successor

Sea Islands

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