Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon RX 6600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT
Radeon HD 5970
2350
Radeon RX 6600 XT
16985
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon RX 6600 XT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Navi 23
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
July 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2589 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1968 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
11,060 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
160 (TGP) Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
331.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2