Radeon RX 6400: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 19.49% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 6400 sales 19 January 2022 at a recommended price of $159 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 6 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GB/s are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 128.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 53 Watt.
Primary Details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6400: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 269 | |
| Place by popularity | 100 | |
| Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation | 12.16 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 24 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 19 January 2022 (2 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $159 | |
| Current price | $376 (2.4x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed Specifications
Radeon RX 6400's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6400's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 768 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 2321 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 5,400 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 6 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 53 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 111.4 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Form Factor & Compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 6400 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM Capacity and Type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6400: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 16 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 128.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and Outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6400. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| HDMI | + |
API Compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 6400, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 6400. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 6400 is T1000 8 GB, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
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