GPU Comparison

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
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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