AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jan 2022
Generation
Northern Islands
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2248 MHz
Base Clock
-
2310 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2815 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
143.9GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
16
Shading Units
1536
1024
TMUs
96
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
RT Cores
-
16
L3 Cache
-
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
90.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
5.765 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
11.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Navi 24
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Navi 24 XT(215-135000006)
Architecture
TeraScale 3
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
5.4 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
107 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
107W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.6