Radeon RX 7700 XT vs Radeon RX 6800

Radeon RX 7700 XT
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 7700 XT
Radeon RX 6800
Memory: 16384Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Oct 2020
Radeon RX 6800

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 7700 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 6800 .
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6800

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 6800
GPU NameNavi 33 (Navi 33 XT)vsNavi 21 (Navi 21 XL)
Fab Process6 nmvs7 nm
Die Size204 mm²vs536 mm²
Transistors13,300 millionvs26,800 million
Shaders2048vs3840
Raytracing Cores32vsnone
Compute Units32vs60
Core clock1900 MHzvs1700 MHz
ROPs64vs96
TMUs128vs240

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 7700 XTRadeon RX 6800
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR6
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs16384 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 7700 XTRadeon RX 6800
TDP200 wattsvs250 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs28 Oct 2020

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    166.40 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 6800
    202.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    332.80 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 6800
    505.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    288.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 6800
    512.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 7700 XT
    21300.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 6800
    16170.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better