Radeon RX 6700 XT vs RX Vega 2

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated50
Place by popularitynot in top-10081
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data57.87
Power efficiencyno data15.57
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeNavi 22
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)3 March 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$479

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1282560
Core clock speedno data2321 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2581 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rateno data413.0
Floating-point processing powerno data13.21 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 3 March 2021
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 230 Watt

RX Vega 2 has 1433.3% lower power consumption.

RX 6700 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 2 and Radeon RX 6700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 2 is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6700 XT is a desktop one.


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