AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT AMD Radeon RX 5700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (2250MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XT +189%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700

7.949 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6900 XT +145%

20915

Radeon RX 5700

8503

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +125%

79

Radeon RX 5700

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +108%

142

Radeon RX 5700

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +84%

194

Radeon RX 5700

105

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +230%

66

Radeon RX 5700

20

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +148%

77

Radeon RX 5700

31

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +136%

116

Radeon RX 5700

49

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +123%

114

Radeon RX 5700

51

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +106%

200

Radeon RX 5700

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +48%

201

Radeon RX 5700

135

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +98%

127

Radeon RX 5700

64

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +105%

152

Radeon RX 5700

74

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +5%

189

Radeon RX 5700

180

Radeon RX 6900 XT

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jul 2019

Navi II

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1465 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

36

5120

Shading Units

2304

320

TMUs

144

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

46.08 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Navi 10

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

180W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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