AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2012
Oct 2020
Generation
London
Navi II
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1825 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
512.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
80
Shading Units
1280
5120
TMUs
80
320
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
RT Cores
-
80
L3 Cache
-
128 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
288.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
720.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
1440.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
46.08 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Wimbledon
Navi 21
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Navi 21 XTX(215-121000167)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
26.8 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
520 mm²

Board Design

TDP
100W
300W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
700 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.8

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