Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon RX 6950 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon RX 6950 XT
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
Radeon RX 6950 XT
29146
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon RX 6950 XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Navi
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
May 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
2324 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
1925 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
5120
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
335 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
743.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
576.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3