AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
May 2022
Generation
Solar System
Navi II
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
2055 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
2635 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2190 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
280.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
32
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
RT Cores
-
32
L3 Cache
-
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
168.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
337.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
10.79 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
674.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
21.59 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
Navi 23
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Navi 23 KXT(215-130000136)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
11.06 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
237 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
176W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.5