AMD Radeon RX 7700S vs RX 6700S

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7700S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year older RX 6700S that utilizes 28 pipelines and 1792 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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 6700S over RX 7700S
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7700S
  • Performs better (up to 39%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (18 vs 6.8 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 34% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 63 vs 47 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Has 29% higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 224 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
136
78
63
41
113
60
47
30
The Witcher 3
122
101
71
39
93
76
50
27
Counter-Strike 2
196
132
93
49
154
106
74
38
Far Cry 6
107
96
70
37
87
75
55
28
Hogwarts Legacy
74
60
44
25
52
46
34
16
CoD: Modern Warfare III
96
91
62
37
75
66
45
29
Ghost of Tsushima
80
63
45
22
58
46
33
18
Cyberpunk 2077
75
67
37
17
56
50
28
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
131
116
78
39
98
85
57
27
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 87
1080p Ultra 89 68
1440p Ultra 63 47
4K Ultra 34 25
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
RX 7700S +39%
9372
6737
Time Spy 10274 7811
Solar Bay 41160 29526
Port Royal 5325 3806
Fire Strike 28639 22441
Wild Life Extreme 18064 13952
Night Raid 101381 79014
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7700S +3%
75137
73161
Background Blur 183.6 img/sec 170.5 img/sec
Face Detection 91.6 img/sec 102.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.68 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.95 Gpixels/sec 3.12 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.39 Gpixels/sec 2.82 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.84 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 244.3 Gpixels/sec 312.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9216.4 FPS 10541.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7700S +3%
15448
15009
G2D Mark 760 733
DirectX 11 136 FPS 133 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 58 FPS
GPU Compute 6991 Ops/s 5877 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]385 & 503 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7700S +8%
986.96
909.9
Sources: Blender [9], [10]49 & 74 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7700S
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-17 (Kosta_Macarov)Steel Nomad Light10117
Radeon RX 6700S
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
RX 7700S +41%
18185
12926
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7700S +50%
23280
15549
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7700S +56%
14842
9500
Image Classification (SP) 8076 5863
Image Segmentation (HP) 10203 6887
Image Super Resolution (Q) 22390 16463
Face Detection (HP) 29334 17257
Pose Estimation (Q) 84068 64202
Text Classification (SP) 3066 2123
Machine Translation (HP) 4439 3125
Object Detection (SP) 7062 4814
Depth Estimation (Q) 38916 24189
Style Transfer (SP) 160714 136875
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700S and RX 6700S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 4, 2023 January 4, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 33 Navi 23
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
Successor - - Radeon RX 7700S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS or above - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS or above
Laptop GPU ranking (45th and 67th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1500 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 1840-2200 MHz (configurable) 1890 MHz
Shading Units 2048 1792
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 28
Ray-tracing Cores 32 28
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 118-141 GPixel/s 121 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 236-282 GTexel/s 212 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7700S +165%
15.1-18 TFLOPS
6.8 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 75-100 W (configurable) 80 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 7 nm
Die Size 204 mm² 237 mm²
Transistor Count 13.3 billion 11.06 billion
Transistor Density 65.2 MTr/mm² 46.67 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7700S +29%
288 GB/s
224 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 1.4

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