Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 7600

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2013 May 2023
Generation Sea Islands Navi III
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 2250 MHz
Base Clock 1720 MHz
Boost Clock 2655 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 264.0GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 32
Shading Units 2048 2048
TMUs 128 128
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB per Array
L2 Cache 768 KB 2 MB
RT Cores 32
L3 Cache 32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 169.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 118.4 GTexel/s 339.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.789 TFLOPS 21.75 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 947.2 GFLOPS 679.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 43.50 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Navi 33
GPU Variant Tahiti XT(215-0821060) Navi 33 XL(215-163000057)
Architecture GCN 1.0 RDNA 3.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 13.3 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 204 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 165W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 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 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.8