AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Mar 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
Navi IV
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1660 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
2970 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
644.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
64
Shading Units
2048
4096
TMUs
128
256
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128
L2 Cache
768 KB
8 MB
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
64
L3 Cache
-
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
380.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
1.521 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
97.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 48
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Navi 48 XTX
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
53.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
357 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
304W
Suggested PSU
700 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
30,445
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
14,633
3DMark Speed Way
-
6,403