AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 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

$ 629.99
$ 283.79
$ 346.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points
144% significantly better overall score
5776 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
170 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
121 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
87 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
153 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
103 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
73 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
50 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points
102% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2007 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
83% significantly higher Blender score
1351.36 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

208130 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
125070 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
92543 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
107859 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz
1941 MHz
6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
2450 MHz
8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
60% significantly more memory
10 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
60% significantly larger memory bus width
160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s
60% significantly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
175 W
71% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s
83% significantly higher pixel rate
156.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s
104% significantly higher texture rate
352.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS
104% significantly better floating point performance
11.29 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
122% significantly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
122% significantly more texture mapping units
144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
100% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586
86th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
2021 June

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 6900 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6700 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6700 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is better than the Radeon RX 6700.

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