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 6950 XT

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2310 MHz

TDP 335 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

175,410

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

4,235

geekbench_metal

N/A

222,653

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

164,748

passmark_directx_10

N/A

164

passmark_directx_11

N/A

300

passmark_directx_12

N/A

114

passmark_directx_9

N/A

303

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,063

passmark_g3d

N/A

28,070

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,199

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RX 6950 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

5,120 +150.0%

Shaders

2,048

5,120 +150.0%

TMUs

128

320 +150.0%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

32

80 +150.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2310 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

2100 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 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

576.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

768 KB

4 MB

L3 Cache

—

128 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

295.7 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

80

Power

TDP

250 W

335 W

TDP (W)

250

335 +34.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

700 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 21

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

28 nm

7 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

26,800 million

Die Size

352 mm²

520 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

51.5M / 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)

2.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Triple-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

120 mm 4.7 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

1,099 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Navi

Successor

Sea Islands

Navi III

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