AMD Radeon RX 7700S vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7700S and AMD Radeon RX 6850M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7700S

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
  • Around 65% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 165 Watt
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 737 vs 631
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 165 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 737 vs 631

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 2500 MHz
  • Around 29% higher texture fill rate: 413.0 GTexel/s vs 320.0 GTexel/s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17512 vs 15156
  • Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80272 vs 72588
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 2321 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed 2581 MHz vs 2500 MHz
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s vs 320.0 GTexel/s
Pipelines 2560 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 17512 vs 15156
Geekbench - OpenCL 80272 vs 72588

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7700S
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
737
631
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15156
17512
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
72588
80272
Name AMD Radeon RX 7700S AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 737 631
PassMark - G3D Mark 15156 17512
Geekbench - OpenCL 72588 80272

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7700S AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
Code name Navi 33 Navi 22
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating 86 87

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2500 MHz 2581 MHz
Compute units 32 40
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 2321 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 2048 2560
Pixel fill rate 160.0 GPixel/s 165.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 320.0 GTexel/s 413.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 165 Watt
Transistor count 13300 million 17200 million
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

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6