AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 424.97

$ 399.99

$ 24.98 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

12665 points

74% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS

267 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

178 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

245 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

104 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

286% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

2098.98 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

127642 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

142477 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

1800 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

2544 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

Identical

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

432 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

6% slightly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

47% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

4096

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

216

35% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

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 7700 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in gaming.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 230 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT at 245 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT.