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Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon RX 6600 XT: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Radeon RX 6600 XT outperforms Radeon HD 8970M on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both GPUs to compare value. The better performing Radeon RX 6600 XT is 2999 days newer than Radeon HD 8970M.

Advantages of Radeon HD 8970M

  • Consumes up to 38% less energy than AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT - 100 vs 160 Watts

Advantages of Radeon RX 6600 XT

  • Performs up to 144% better in Starfield than Radeon HD 8970M - 39 vs 16 FPS
  • Up to 100% more VRAM memory than AMD Radeon HD 8970M - 8 vs 4 GB
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Starfield

Starfield

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013


FPS

16

41%

Value, £/FPS

Price, £

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6600 XT

Desktop • Jul 30th, 2021


FPS

39

100%

Value, £/FPS

£6.37/FPS

100%

Price, £

£248.46

100%

FPS and Value Winner

ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT Challenger D OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Buy for £248.46 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 18 minutes ago

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With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6600 XT

Desktop • Jul 30th, 2021

Theoretical Performance

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013


Pixel Fillrate

28.8 GPixel/s

17%

Texel Fillrate

72 GTexel/s

22%

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Logo
Radeon RX 6600 XT

Desktop • Jul 30th, 2021


Pixel Fillrate

165.7 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

331.4 GTexel/s

100%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo

Radeon HD 8970M

vs
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Logo

Radeon RX 6600 XT

May 14th, 2013Release Date
Jul 30th, 2021
Solar SystemGenerationNavi II
Not AvailableMSRP$379
NoneOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
NonePower Connectors1x 8-pin
Mobile
Segment
Desktop
4 GBMemory
8 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6
256-bitBus128-bit
153.6 GB/sBandwidth
256 GB/s
850 MHzBase Clock Speed
1968 MHz
900 MHzBoost Clock Speed
2589 MHz
1200 MHzMemory Clock Speed
2000 MHz

PCs Using Radeon HD 8970M or Radeon RX 6600 XT

With selected game settings

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