AMD Radeon RX 6700 Specs Gaming, Benchmarks And Pricing
GPU RX 6700
RDNA 2 powers the mid-range AMD Radeon RX 6700's 1440p gaming. We'll review its attributes, performance, and other details.
Architecture and Features
The new RDNA 2 design boosts performance per watt by 54%.
Power consumption and memory delay are reduced with 80 MB of Infinity Cache on-die cache.
DirectX 12 Ultimate support: Allows variable rate shading and ray tracing.
Support for PCIe 4.0 ensures faster data transfer.
Support for AV1 Decode improves video streaming.
With compatible Ryzen CPUs, AMD Smart Access Memory boosts performance.
Upscaling in AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) speeds up frames.
Advantages
Modern games run smoothly in 1440p.
Effective Design: RDNA 2 outperforms per watt.
Rich Features: Supports Smart Access Memory, FSR, and Ray Tracing.
Competitive pricing: Has good performance-tier value.
Disadvantages
Limited VRAM: 10 GB may not be enough for higher-resolution games.
Ray Tracing Performance trails NVIDIA in ray tracing workloads.
AI workloads aren't optimised for machine learning.
Ray Tracking
Radeon RX 6700 includes 36 Ray Accelerators—one per CPU—to improve game and app lighting, shadows, and reflections. Midrange GPUs can ray trace, although NVIDIA's RTX series has superior RT cores and AI-powered DLSS.
Ray tracing works well at 1080p and sometimes 1440p on the RX 6700, but higher settings may require downscaling or AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) to maintain frame rate.
Finally, the RX 6700's ray tracing improves budget gamers' and producers' graphics.
3D Render
AMD HIP enhances Blender GPU rendering.
Many engines support OpenCL, including LuxCoreRender and Radeon ProRender.
High-resolution textures, complicated settings, and large models work well on 10GB/12GB VRAM.
These times are equivalent to RTX 3060 12GB but slower than 3070/3080 in CUDA-optimized renderers.
Limitations
CUDA-dependent OctaneRender and Redshift are disabled.
Multi-GPU systems for CUDA-optimized apps are slower than NVIDIA.
Video Editing
Editing Software Support
Excellent OpenCL/GPU acceleration, 4K timeline playback, and DaVinci Resolve exporting.
Premiere Pro: GPU acceleration, smooth editing and previewing, but slower encoding/export than NVIDIA.
Good timeline scrubbing and basic motion graphics with After Effects. Works well with light-to-moderate compositions.
Conclusion
AMD Radeon RX 6700 is a good 1440p GPU for its price and performance. Though its ray tracing and AI are poor, its features and efficiency make it a market contender.