Radeon RX 6700 vs HD 6970M Crossfire

Place in the ranking	475	58
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	19.90
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Blackcomb XT	Navi 22
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	6 January 2011 (13 years ago)	9 June 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1920	2304
Core clock speed	680 MHz	1941 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2450 MHz
Number of transistors	2x1700 Million	17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	175 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	352.8
Floating-point processing power	no data	11.29 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	64
TMUs	no data	144
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	36

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	no data	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2x2 GB	10 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	160 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	320.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	no data	1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.5
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	2.1
Vulkan	-	1.3

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	94 −432%	500−550 +432%
Full HD	101 −445%	550−600 +445%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

14−16

−436%

75−80
+436%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24 −445%	120−130 +445%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14 −438%	70−75 +438%
Battlefield 5	27−30 −436%	150−160 +436%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20 −426%	100−105 +426%
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16 −436%	75−80 +436%
Far Cry 5	21−24 −424%	110−120 +424%
Far Cry New Dawn	24−27 −420%	130−140 +420%
Forza Horizon 4	60−65 −392%	300−310 +392%
Hitman 3	16−18 −429%	90−95 +429%
Horizon Zero Dawn	50−55 −449%	280−290 +449%
Metro Exodus	27−30 −436%	150−160 +436%
Red Dead Redemption 2	24−27 −420%	130−140 +420%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−33 −433%	160−170 +433%
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65 −400%	300−310 +400%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24 −445%	120−130 +445%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14 −438%	70−75 +438%
Battlefield 5	27−30 −436%	150−160 +436%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20 −426%	100−105 +426%
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16 −436%	75−80 +436%
Far Cry 5	21−24 −424%	110−120 +424%
Far Cry New Dawn	24−27 −420%	130−140 +420%
Forza Horizon 4	60−65 −392%	300−310 +392%
Hitman 3	16−18 −429%	90−95 +429%
Horizon Zero Dawn	50−55 −449%	280−290 +449%
Metro Exodus	27−30 −436%	150−160 +436%
Red Dead Redemption 2	24−27 −420%	130−140 +420%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−33 −433%	160−170 +433%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	24−27 −420%	130−140 +420%
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65 −400%	300−310 +400%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24 −445%	120−130 +445%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14 −438%	70−75 +438%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20 −426%	100−105 +426%
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16 −436%	75−80 +436%
Far Cry 5	21−24 −424%	110−120 +424%
Forza Horizon 4	60−65 −392%	300−310 +392%
Hitman 3	16−18 −429%	90−95 +429%
Horizon Zero Dawn	50−55 −449%	280−290 +449%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−33 −433%	160−170 +433%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	24−27 −420%	130−140 +420%
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65 −400%	300−310 +400%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

24−27
−420%

130−140

+420%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	18−20 −428%	95−100 +428%
Far Cry New Dawn	14−16 −436%	75−80 +436%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 −400%	45−50 +400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6 −440%	27−30 +440%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10 −400%	45−50 +400%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −425%	21−24 +425%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −400%	50−55 +400%
Forza Horizon 4	35−40 −438%	210−220 +438%
Hitman 3	12−14 −442%	65−70 +442%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −426%	100−105 +426%
Metro Exodus	12−14 −438%	70−75 +438%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −400%	50−55 +400%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9 −400%	40−45 +400%
Watch Dogs: Legion	55−60 −417%	300−310 +417%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

14−16

−433%

80−85
+433%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	8−9 −400%	40−45 +400%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 −400%	30−33 +400%
Hitman 3	5−6 −440%	27−30 +440%
Horizon Zero Dawn	35−40 −441%	200−210 +441%
Metro Exodus	7−8 −400%	35−40 +400%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7 −400%	30−33 +400%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 −440%	27−30 +440%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5 −425%	21−24 +425%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −425%	21−24 +425%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −400%	5−6 +400%
Far Cry 5	5−6 −440%	27−30 +440%
Forza Horizon 4	10−12 −445%	60−65 +445%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6 −440%	27−30 +440%
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4 −433%	16−18 +433%