AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs RX 6800

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB with 3456 shaders against the 2 years and 11 months older RX 6800 16 GB that utilizes 3840 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
12 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
59.4
(Average)
Value Index
64.8
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 6800 over RX 7700 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7700 XT
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (35.2 vs 16.2 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
186
117
96
70
175
114
95
66
The Witcher 3
179
152
113
61
172
148
108
57
Counter-Strike 2
268
195
134
74
265
193
131
75
Far Cry 6
145
131
110
63
146
129
106
61
Hogwarts Legacy
106
89
69
39
106
86
68
36
CoD: Modern Warfare III
148
143
102
64
146
135
97
63
Ghost of Tsushima
111
90
73
44
110
89
70
43
Cyberpunk 2077
115
103
65
31
113
98
65
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
192
176
130
67
179
168
122
63
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 161 157
1080p Ultra 133 129
1440p Ultra 99 96
4K Ultra 57 55
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
14970
14538
Time Spy 17109 16227
Solar Bay 65104 64715
Port Royal 9114 8145
Fire Strike 42722 44367
Wild Life Extreme 30428 29767
Night Raid 147320 142456
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
132843
RX 6800 +2%
135060
Background Blur 285.8 img/sec 298.6 img/sec
Face Detection 181.6 img/sec 186.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.9 Gpixels/sec 4.75 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.66 Gpixels/sec 6.68 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.68 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.18 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 493 Gpixels/sec 579 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19410.5 FPS 18755.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
8946
RX 6800 +8%
9629

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
22757
22059
G2D Mark 1157 1002
DirectX 11 232 FPS 211 FPS
DirectX 12 83 FPS 90 FPS
GPU Compute 12980 Ops/s 10751 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2872 & 4876 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7700 XT +11%
2109.44
1892.86
Sources: Blender [9], [10]267 & 739 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7700 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912)GeekBench135040
Radeon RX 6800
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
25719
25097
GB6 ML Half Precision
30075
27988
GB6 ML Quantized
19789
19116
Image Classification (SP) 11284 11245
Image Segmentation (HP) 14150 13617
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27972 27747
Face Detection (HP) 35311 38124
Pose Estimation (Q) 142235 119493
Text Classification (SP) 3836 2425
Machine Translation (HP) 4471 5228
Object Detection (SP) 12084 11986
Depth Estimation (Q) 49197 46083
Style Transfer (SP) 301429 281860
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 6800

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 October 28, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $449 $579
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 32 Navi 21
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB - GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 13700K or above - Intel Core i5 12600 or above
Desktop GPU rating (33rd and 38th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1435 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 2544 MHz 2105 MHz
Shading Units 3456 3840
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 216 240
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 96
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 54 60
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 244 GPixel/s 202 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 550 GTexel/s 505 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7700 XT +117%
35.2 TFLOPS
16.2 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 245 W 250 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 7 nm
Die Size 346 mm² 520 mm²
Transistor Count 28 billion 26 billion
Transistor Density 80.92 MTr/mm² 50 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
432 GB/s
RX 6800 +19%
512 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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