AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Price

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$ 529.99

$ 100.00 slightly less expensive

$ 629.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4478 points

14121 points

215% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

91 FPS

286 FPS

195 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

67 FPS

208 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

257 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

122 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8496 points

109% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4065 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

877.69 points

2478.22 points

182% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

57679 points

159528 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

58932 points

170008 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51919 points

114610 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

82201 points

208130 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

69383 points

167644 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73003 points

171121 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1465 MHz

1825 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2250 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

512 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

66% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.4 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

160% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

248.4 Gigatexels/s

720 Gigatexels/s

189% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.95 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

189% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5120

122% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

320

122% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

113th of 586

24th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2020 August

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 5700 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5700 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6900 XT has a slightly 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 6900 XT also has a slightly 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 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 5700 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 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 6900 XT over the Radeon RX 5700.