AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2024
Jan 2013
Generation
Navi III
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1980 MHz
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Boost Clock
2755 MHz
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Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
32
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
64
32
RT Cores
32
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L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
L3 Cache
32 MB
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Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
176.3 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
352.6 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
45.14 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
22.57 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
705.3 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 33
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Navi 33 XT(215-163000047)
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
13.3 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
204 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
190W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.8
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
11,241
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
5,289
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3DMark Speed Way
2,044
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
40
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
22
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
90
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Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
50
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
140
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Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
80
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GTA 5 2160p
80
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GTA 5 1440p
80
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GTA 5 1080p
190
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.