Radeon RX 6800 XT vs Radeon RX 9070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages
1024 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2520MHz vs 2250MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (220W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800 XT
20740
Radeon RX 9070
+74%
36130
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6800 XT
19329
Radeon RX 9070
+39%
26876
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6800 XT
9315
Radeon RX 9070
+40%
13072
3DMark Speed Way
Radeon RX 6800 XT
3653
Radeon RX 9070
+59%
5844
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 2025
Navi II
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1825 MHz
Base Clock
1330 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
72
Compute Units
56
4608
Shading Units
3584
288
TMUs
224
128
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
112
72
RT Cores
56
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
4 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
128 MB
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
288.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
648.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
41.47 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
20.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
1296 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
220W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
Navi 48
Navi 21 XT
(215-121000177)
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
4 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.5
Shader Model
6.8
