AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs RX 6800
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
Navi 32
AMD Radeon RX 6800
Navi 21
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
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)
Key differences
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 resolutionsGames
| 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 |
| 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 apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| 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 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| 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 |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1157 | 1002 |
| DirectX 11 | 232 FPS | 211 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 83 FPS | 90 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 12980 Ops/s | 10751 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7700 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912) | GeekBench | 135040 |
Radeon RX 6800
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| 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 |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 6800General
| 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)
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
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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