AMD Radeon RX 9060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2025
Oct 2010
Generation
Navi IV
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2990 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
14
Shading Units
1792
1120
TMUs
112
56
ROPs
64
32
RT Cores
28
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
L3 Cache
32 MB
-
L1 Cache
-
8 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
191.4 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
334.9 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
42.86 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
21.43 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
669.8 GFLOPS
-
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 44
Barts
GPU Variant
Navi 44
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
40 nm
Transistors
29.7 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
199 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
132W
151W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b2x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
Shader Model
6.8
5.0