Home GPU Comparison AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2544MHz vs 2250MHz)

Lower TDP (245W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 XT +52%

35.17 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

23.04 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7700 XT

17043

Radeon RX 6900 XT +22%

20902

Blender

Radeon RX 7700 XT

2218

Radeon RX 6900 XT +29%

2883

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

Radeon RX 6900 XT +23%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

128

Radeon RX 6900 XT +10%

142

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +12%

218

Radeon RX 6900 XT

194

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

Radeon RX 6900 XT +83%

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +23%

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +25%

145

Radeon RX 6900 XT

116

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

110

Radeon RX 6900 XT +15%

127

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

112

Radeon RX 6900 XT +35%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

190

Radeon RX 6900 XT

189

Horizon Forbidden West 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

Radeon RX 6900 XT +31%

114

Horizon Forbidden West 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

Radeon RX 6900 XT +27%

Horizon Forbidden West 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

Radeon RX 6900 XT +30%

Radeon RX 7700 XT

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Oct 2020

Navi III

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1435 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

2544 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

Compute Units

3456

Shading Units

5120

216

TMUs

320

ROPs

128

Tensor Cores

RT Cores

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

244.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

549.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

70.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

35.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

1099 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Navi 21

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

245W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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