AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2022
Aug 2012
Generation
Navi II
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1860 MHz
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Boost Clock
2310 MHz
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Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
576.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
80
32
Shading Units
5120
2048
TMUs
320
128
ROPs
128
32
RT Cores
80
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L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
L3 Cache
128 MB
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Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
295.7 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
739.2 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
47.31 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
23.65 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1478 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 21
New Zealand
GPU Variant
Navi 21 KXTX(215-121000289)
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Architecture
RDNA 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
26.8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
335W
500W
Suggested PSU
700 W
900 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.