AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB, 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

$ 519.00
$ 90.69 slightly less expensive
$ 609.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9568 points
14149 points
47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS
291 FPS
95 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS
217 FPS
73 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS
278 FPS
105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS
134 FPS
51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16155 points
157% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6282 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points
2743.15 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points
135343 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points
167848 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz
2520 MHz
19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
Identical
16 GiB

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

512 GB/s
640 GB/s
25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
59% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS
36.1 TFLOPS
123% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
128
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 586
23rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 6800 vs Radeon RX 9070 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 9070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6800 in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 9070 is faster than the Radeon RX 6800.

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