AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 424.97
$ 336.70
$ 88.27 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points
46% significantly better overall score
4933 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS
33 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
114 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
65 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS
54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
49 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points
63% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
7843 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points
2173.35 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
85184 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
66795 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
84977 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
79052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz
130% significantly higher core clock speed
1005 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz
67% significantly higher boost clock speed
1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
49% significantly more memory
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s
416 GB/s
8% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W
160 W
43% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s
67% significantly higher pixel rate
98.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s
85% significantly higher texture rate
222.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS
85% significantly better floating point performance
7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
11% slightly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
11% slightly more texture mapping units
144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586
103rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2018 November

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 6700 XT vs Quadro RTX 4000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU is faster than the Quadro RTX 4000 in gaming.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 160 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 Quadro RTX 4000.

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