AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs ATI Radeon 9700

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and ATI Radeon 9700 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

ATI Radeon 9700

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 20 year(s) 4 month(s) later
5.5x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 275 MHz
365636.4x more texture fill rate: 804.4 GTexel/s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 150 nm
160x more maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 128 MB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 540 MHz
8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1217 vs 152
655.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28850 vs 44

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 Nov 2022 vs 1 July 2002
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	804.4 GTexel/s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	20 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 540 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1217 vs 152
PassMark - G3D Mark	28850 vs 44

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9700

8.1x lower typical power consumption: 37 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	37 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9700

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1217

152

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

28850

Name	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	ATI Radeon 9700
PassMark - G2D Mark	1217	152
PassMark - G3D Mark	28850	44
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5623
Geekbench - OpenCL	169572
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	343.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	12483.531
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	60.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2714.187

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	ATI Radeon 9700
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Rage 8
Code name	Navi 31	R300
Launch date	3 Nov 2022	1 July 2002
Place in performance rating	17	1120
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2394 MHz
Compute units	84
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	150 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.218 TFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	103.0 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	51.48 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5376
Pixel fill rate	459.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	804.4 GTexel/s	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	37 Watt
Transistor count	57700 million	110 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	51 mm, 2 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	276 mm, 10.9 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	Floppy
Width	135 mm, 5.3 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	20 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	800.0 GB/s	17.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective	540 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR