AMD Radeon RX 5600 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Price

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$ 199.98

$ 224.99 significantly less expensive

$ 424.97

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3570 points

7241 points

102% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

77 FPS

147 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

56 FPS

108 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

69 FPS

131 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

62 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1479 points

12827 points

767% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

609.00 points

1515.19 points

148% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48650 points

102988 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37453 points

70085 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

76653 points

131084 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

62239 points

100963 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53743 points

114437 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz

2321 MHz

105% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

2581 MHz

65% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

384 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

53% significantly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.84 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199.68 Gigatexels/s

413 Gigatexels/s

106% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.39 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

106% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2560

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

160

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

135th of 586

64th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5600 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the Radeon RX 5600.