AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 149.39

$ 275.58 significantly less expensive

$ 424.97

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

825 points

7241 points

777% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

18 FPS

147 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

108 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

131 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

62 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon RX 560 and the Radeon RX 6700 XT? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1833 points

12827 points

599% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.09 points

1515.19 points

1064% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21086 points

102988 points

388% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19493 points

70085 points

259% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23476 points

131084 points

458% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20226 points

100963 points

399% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23100 points

114437 points

395% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1175 MHz

2321 MHz

97% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1275 MHz

2581 MHz

102% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

384 GB/s

242% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

187% significantly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

709% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s

413 Gigatexels/s

406% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.61 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

405% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2560

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

275th of 586

64th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the Radeon RX 560.