AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 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

$ 629.99
$ 609.69
$ 20.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points
14149 points
0.20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
291 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
217 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
278 FPS
21 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
134 FPS
12 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points
6282 points
54% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
2743.15 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
135343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
167848 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
2520 MHz
11% 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

288 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
12% slightly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS
36.1 TFLOPS
56% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
Identical
128

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th 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 August
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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 6900 XT vs Radeon RX 9070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6900 XT in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 is better than the Radeon RX 6900 XT.

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