Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon RX 6700

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 6700
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 6700

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6500 XT

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6700

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Radeon RX 6700

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 6700

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 6700
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsNavi 22 (Navi 22 XL)
Fab Process6 nmvs7 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvsunknown
Shaders1024vs2304
Compute Units16vs36
Core clock2200 MHzvs1489 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs64vs144

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 6700
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR6
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs12288 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 6700
TDP107 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vsUNRELEASED

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 6700
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 6700
    288.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 6700
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 6700
    9216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better