AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

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

$ 609.69
$ 519.00
$ 90.69 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

15011 points
56% significantly better overall score
9568 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

308 FPS
112 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
196 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

225 FPS
82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
143 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

291 FPS
118 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
173 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

138 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
83 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

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

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

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

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

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

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz
19% slightly higher boost clock speed
2105 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
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

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

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

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

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

36.1 TFLOPS
123% significantly better floating point performance
16.17 TFLOPS

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
33% slightly more render output processors
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

18th of 587
41st of 587

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

-
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

-
4.6

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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