Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon HD 6970M X2 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 7900 XT
Radeon HD 6970M X2
Architecture
RDNA 3
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Navi 31 XT
Blackcomb
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2022
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
680 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
5 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
57,700 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5376
960
Power consumption (TDP)
315 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
804.4
32.64
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
20 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
20000 MHz
3.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
800.0 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
Portable Device Dependent
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.7
5.0
Vulkan
1.3
N/A