Radeon HD 4860 and Radeon RX 6700 XT - video card comparison

Radeon HD 4860

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV790

Navi 22

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2009

March 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2581 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

2321 MHz

Floating-point performance

896.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

959 million

17,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

230 Watt

Texture fill rate

22.40

413.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

3000 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

384.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2