Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2581MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (230W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+130%
13210
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Mar 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2321 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2581 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
40
2816
Shading Units
2560
176
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
L3 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
165.2 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.43 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
825.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
230W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Navi 22
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Navi 22 XT
(215-127000006)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
17.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
335 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.5
