Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2022 Jun 2012
Generation Mobility Radeon Southern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1800 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 2100 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 384bit
Bandwidth 256.0GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 32
Shading Units 2048 2048
TMUs 128 128
ROPs 64 32
RT Cores 32
L1 Cache 128 KB per Array 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 768 KB
L3 Cache 32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 134.4 GPixel/s 33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 268.8 GTexel/s 134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 17.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 8.602 TFLOPS 4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 537.6 GFLOPS 1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Navi 23 Tahiti
Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 7 nm 28 nm
Transistors 11.06 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 237 mm² 352 mm²
GPU Variant Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Board Design
TDP 100W 300W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 700 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
Shader Model 6.5 5.1