AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 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

$ 659.00
$ 114.49 slightly less expensive
$ 773.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11265 points
16263 points
44% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

231 FPS
383 FPS
152 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

167 FPS
188 FPS
21 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

204 FPS
278 FPS
75 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS
154 FPS
57 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Far Cry 6 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

82 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS
74 FPS
Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

103 FPS
19 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS
84 FPS
Hitman 3 FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

77 FPS
105 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Hitman 3 FPS
Call of Duty FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

163 FPS
26 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS
137 FPS
The Witcher 3 FPS

The Witcher 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

111 FPS
21 FPS slightly higher The Witcher 3 FPS
90 FPS
Watch Dogs: Legion FPS

Watch Dogs: Legion FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

92 FPS
106 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Watch Dogs: Legion FPS
Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

121 FPS
89 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
32 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

90 FPS
36 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS
54 FPS
Days Gone FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 4K

67 FPS
78 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Days Gone FPS
Dying Light 2 FPS

Dying Light 2 FPS

High settings at 1080p

131 FPS
72 FPS significantly higher Dying Light 2 FPS
59 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19436 points
286% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5035 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2414.65 points
6656.46 points
175% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

154801 points
205515 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157877 points
188957 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2015 MHz
2310 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
2610 MHz
16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
33% slightly more memory
12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s
1% slightly higher memory bandwidth
504.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
285 W
5% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s
37% slightly higher pixel rate
208.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

648 Gigatexels/s
3% slightly higher texture rate
626.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.74 TFLOPS
40.09 TFLOPS
93% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608
7680
66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288
20% slightly more texture mapping units
240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
60% significantly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 586
15th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti beats the Radeon RX 6800 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 GeForce RTX 4070 Ti also has a slightly 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 6800 XT has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 285 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 GeForce RTX 4070 Ti over the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

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