AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6700S

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

94% significantly better overall score

3718 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

93 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

61 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

77 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

34 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

788% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1443 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

916.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

72317 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

131084 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

70085 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

64266 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

74785 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

1700 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

2000 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

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

80 W

187% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

128 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

247.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

7.92 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

42% many more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

42% many more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586

131st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

2022 January

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 6700 XT vs Radeon RX 6700S comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 XT beats the Radeon RX 6700S in gaming performance.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700S has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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