NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 6700 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, 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 NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

  • 2.9x more pipelines: 7424 vs 2560
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 230 Watt
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 23314 vs 19887
  • Around 43% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 138940 vs 97111
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 7424 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 230 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 23314 vs 19887
Geekbench - OpenCL 138940 vs 97111

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 413.0 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 941 vs 749
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 2321 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 2581 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 941 vs 749

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
749
941
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
23314
19887
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
138940
97111
Name NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 749 941
PassMark - G3D Mark 23314 19887
Geekbench - OpenCL 138940 97111
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)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 2.0
Code name AD104 Navi 22
Place in performance rating 42 46
Launch date 3 Mar 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $479
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 2581 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 2321 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 7424 2560
Pixel fill rate 133.2 GPixel/s 165.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 386.3 GTexel/s 413.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt 230 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 17200 million
Compute units 40
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 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Height 40 mm (1.6 inches)
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Width 110 mm (4.3 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 432.0 GB/s 384 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6