Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 7900 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
Radeon RX 7900 XT
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
RDNA 3
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Navi 31 XT
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
November 2022
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2000 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
2x1700 Million
57,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
5376
Power consumption (TDP)
-
315 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
804.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2x2 GB
20 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
20000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
800.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
-
2.1
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3