AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon VII 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 629.99

$ 315.01 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points

130% significantly better overall score

6138 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS

179 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

100 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS

150 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

106 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points

9129 points

124% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

203% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

159528 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

68286 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

77122 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

208130 points

168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

77386 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

92086 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91729 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

1024 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

Identical

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

149% significantly higher pixel rate

115.26 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

432.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

13.8 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

33% slightly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

33% slightly more texture mapping units

240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6900 XT vs Radeon VII comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 XT 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 6900 XT and the Radeon VII have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is faster than the Radeon VII.