AMD Radeon RX 6700: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 6700 sales 9 June 2021. This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 10 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GB/s are supplied, and together with 160 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 175 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6700: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	48
Value for money	23.92
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Navi 22
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	9 June 2021 (2 years old)
Current price	$551	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

Radeon RX 6700's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6700's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed	2450 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	17,200 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	352.8	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 6700 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 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6700: 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	10 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	160 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	16 GB/s	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	320.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6700. 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, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 6700, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.1
Vulkan	1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 6700. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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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.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 6700 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Radeon RX 6700's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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