AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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Radeon RX 5700 XT compared with Radeon RX 6700 XT

	AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT	AMDRadeon RX 6700 XT
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	March 2021
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	AMD
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	RDNA 2
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	2,560
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,905 MHz or 1,980 MHz	2,581 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	40 compute units; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs; 10.3 billion transistors. Main figures and photo describe the standard reference card, pictured as MSI's RX 5700 XT 8G.	AMD reference specification; 40 compute units and 17.2 billion transistors. AMD's current product table labels 1 March 2021 as the launch date, but its announcement specifies 18 March as the first on-sale date used here.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	7 nm
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	40 Ray Accelerators; DirectX Raytracing support
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR); AMD Radeon Super Resolution
Base clock
Base clock	Standard edition 1605 MHz base and 1755 MHz game clock; 50th Anniversary edition 1680 MHz base, 1830 MHz game clock and 1980 MHz boost.	2321 MHz base, 2424 MHz game frequency and up to 2581 MHz boost; AMD defines boost for bursty workloads rather than sustained gaming
Cache
Cache	–	96 MB AMD Infinity Cache
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit or –	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s or –	384 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	Standard edition 14 Gbps GDDR6. AMD's launch table confirms the Anniversary edition's 8 GB GDDR6 but does not publish its bus, bandwidth or board power; those configuration fields are omitted independently.	Up to 16 Gbps GDDR6; 384 GB/s physical memory bandwidth. AMD separately claims up to 1278 GB/s effective bandwidth including Infinity Cache; this is not used as the physical bandwidth figure.
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	225 W or –	230 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G). AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4a support.	DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.1 supporting 4K 120 Hz or 8K 60 Hz with VRR
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G)	–
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin (standard)	1 × PCIe 8-pin and 1 × PCIe 6-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W (standard)	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	–	2-slot (AMD reference)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 40 mm and 1110 g (MSI standard reference-design RX 5700 XT 8G)	267 mm long (AMD reference); no reference width or height verified
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	Hardware AV1 decoding; H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode