AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7670A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and AMD Radeon HD 7670A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7670A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
3.9x more core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 600 MHz
12513.9x more texture fill rate: 180.2 GTexel/s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 1024 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 813 vs 702
9.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9558 vs 1050

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 5 January 2012
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	813 vs 702
PassMark - G3D Mark	9558 vs 1050

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670A

2.4x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 107 Watt
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 107 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7670A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

813

702

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9558

1050

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7670A
PassMark - G2D Mark	813	702
PassMark - G3D Mark	9558	1050
Geekbench - OpenCL	48415
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4918

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7670A
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Navi 24	Turks
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	5 January 2012
Place in performance rating	166	168
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	480
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s	14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	716 million
Floating-point performance		576.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	MXM-A (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5