Radeon RX 7700 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Radeon RX 7700 XT
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 7700 XT
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 6700 XT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 7700 XT

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6700 XT

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 7700 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)

Radeon RX 7700 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 7700 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 7700 XTRadeon RX 6700 XT
GPU NameNavi 33 (Navi 33 XT)vsNavi 22 (Navi 22 XT)
Fab Process6 nmvs7 nm
Die Size204 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors13,300 millionvsunknown
Shaders2048vs2560
Raytracing Cores32vsnone
Compute Units32vs40
Core clock1900 MHzvs1489 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs128vs192

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 7700 XTRadeon RX 6700 XT
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR6
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs12288 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 7700 XTRadeon RX 6700 XT
TDP200 wattsvs150 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvsUNRELEASED

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    166.40 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    332.80 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    384.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    288.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    21300.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    10240.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better