AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2025
Aug 2012
Generation
Navi IV
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1420 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2790 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
48
32
SM Count
46
-
Shading Units
3072
2048
TMUs
192
128
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
8 MB
768 KB
L3 Cache
48 MB
-
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
267.8 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
535.7 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
68.57 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
34.28 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1071.4 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 48
New Zealand
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XL
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Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
53.9 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
357 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
220W
500W
Suggested PSU
550 W
900 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.8
5.1