AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Aug 2012
Generation
Navi IV
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
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Boost Clock
3130 MHz
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Memory Clock
2518 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
322.3GB/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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L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
L3 Cache
32 MB
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L1 Cache
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16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
200.3 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
400.6 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
51.28 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
25.64 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
801.3 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 44
New Zealand
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT(215-176400102)
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Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
29.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
199 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
160W
500W
Suggested PSU
450 W
900 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b2x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
3x 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
16,494
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
7,616
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3DMark Speed Way
2,995
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.