AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 58% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 1630 MHz
  • 989.7x more texture fill rate: 413.0 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz
Launch date 3 Mar 2021 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed 2321 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed 2581 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2560
  • Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 230 Watt
  • 2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 97104
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 4096 vs 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt vs 230 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 196748 vs 97104

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
97104
196748
Name AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 19886
PassMark - G2D Mark 941
Geekbench - OpenCL 97104 196748
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 349.422
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 7129.567
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 34.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 197.183
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1699.337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15315
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 18062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 50772
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15315
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 18062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 50772
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 12774

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Navi 22 Vega 10
Launch date 3 Mar 2021 8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $479
Place in performance rating 46 34
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2581 MHz 1630 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 2321 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 825.9 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.43 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.21 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 4096
Pixel fill rate 165.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s 417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 230 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 17200 million
Floating-point performance 13,353 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 40 mm (1.6 inches)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches) 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 110 mm (4.3 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 384 GB/s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2