AMD Radeon RX 6800 3456SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
Jan 2012
Generation
Navi II
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
54
32
Shading Units
3456
2048
TMUs
216
128
ROPs
96
32
RT Cores
54
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L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
L3 Cache
128 MB
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Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
216.0 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
486.0 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
31.10 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
15.55 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
972.0 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 21
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Navi 21 ES(215-121000066)
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
26.8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
250W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.8
6.5 (5.1)
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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1,209