AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 395.99
$ 283.79
$ 112.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4311 points
5776 points
33% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

89 FPS
116 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS
87 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
103 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
50 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7692 points
283% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2007 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

619.96 points
1351.36 points
117% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

80618 points
125070 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65528 points
92543 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

77765 points
107859 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz
1941 MHz
71% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz
2450 MHz
57% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
10 GiB
66% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
20% slightly larger memory bus width
160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
5% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
16% slightly lower TDP
175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.8 Gigapixels/s
156.8 Gigapixels/s
57% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.64 Gigatexels/s
352.8 Gigatexels/s
57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.19 TFLOPS
11.29 TFLOPS
57% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
Identical
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
Identical
144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

116th of 586
86th 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 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 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 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 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 over the Radeon RX 5600 XT.

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