Radeon RX 6700 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Radeon RX 6700
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 6700
Radeon RX Vega 56
Memory: 8192Mb HBM2DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Aug 2017
Radeon RX Vega 56

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6700

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX Vega 56 .
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)

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 56

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 6700

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 6700

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6700Radeon RX Vega 56
GPU NameNavi 22 (Navi 22 XL)vsVega 10 (Vega 10 XL)
Fab Process7 nmvs14 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs484 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs12,500 million
Shaders2304vs3584
Compute Units36vs56
Core clock1489 MHzvs1156 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs144vs224

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6700Radeon RX Vega 56
Memory TypeGDDR6vsHBM2
Bus Width192 bitvs2048 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6700Radeon RX Vega 56
TDP120 wattsvs210 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs8 Aug 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6700
    128.00 GP/s
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    94.14 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6700
    288.00 GT/s
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    329.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6700
    384.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    409.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6700
    9216.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    10544.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better