AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500, 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

$ 424.97
$ 196.96
$ 228.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points
163% significantly better overall score
2744 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

148 FPS
88 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS
81 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points
203% significantly higher Blender score
499.84 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
41494 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points
114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
32626 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

131084 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
54244 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points
120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45792 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
55856 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz
33% slightly higher core clock speed
1744 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz
39% slightly higher boost clock speed
1855 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s
71% significantly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W
125 W
84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s
178% significantly higher pixel rate
59.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s
153% significantly higher texture rate
163.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS
146% significantly better floating point performance
5.35 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
81% significantly more shading units
1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
81% significantly more texture mapping units
88

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586
164th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2020 February

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 Radeon Pro W5500 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon Pro W5500 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 XT also has a slightly 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.

In addition, the Radeon Pro W5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 125 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 Pro W5500.

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