Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2012 Unknown
Generation Southern Islands Navi III
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 2500 MHz
Base Clock 2000 MHz
Boost Clock 3000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 20GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 384bit 320bit
Bandwidth 264.0GB/s 800.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 84
Shading Units 2048 5376
TMUs 128 336
ROPs 32 192
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 256 KB per Array
L2 Cache 768 KB 6 MB
RT Cores 84
L3 Cache 80 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 576.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 118.4 GTexel/s 1008 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.789 TFLOPS 64.51 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 947.2 GFLOPS 2.016 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 129.0 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Navi 31
GPU Variant Tahiti XT(215-0821060) Navi 31 XT+
Architecture GCN 1.0 RDNA 3.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 5 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 57.7 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 529 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 300W
Suggested PSU 600 W 700 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.1a2x DisplayPort 2.11x USB Type-C
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 2.1 (1.2) 2.2
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.3
Shader Model 6.5 (5.1) 6.7