Radeon RX 9070 XT vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 6800 XT on real gaming benchmarks, full specifications, live retailer prices and performance-per-dollar, then jump straight to the cheapest in-stock version of either card.

The short answer

The Radeon RX 9070 XT is the better buy here: it's both faster at 1440p and gives more performance per dollar.

  • Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 43% faster at 1440p (gaming index 69 vs 48).
  • Radeon RX 9070 XT is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 24%.
  • Radeon RX 9070 XT delivers about 76% more frames per dollar at 1440p.

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Switch resolution with the toggle above.

1440p gaming
Radeon RX 9070 XT69
Radeon RX 6800 XT48

Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 43% faster at 1440p.

Performance per dollar

1440p gaming score for every $100 of the card’s current cheapest price. Higher is better value.

Radeon RX 9070 XT

9.5

per $100 spent

Better value

Radeon RX 6800 XT

5.4

per $100 spent

Specs head-to-head

Radeon RX 9070 XT
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Price (from)
$719.99
$890.00
1440p gaming index
69
48
VRAM
16GB GDDR6
16GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
512 GB/s
Boost clock
2970 MHz
2250 MHz
Shader cores
4,096
4,608
Ray tracing cores
64
72
Tensor / AI cores
128
TDP
304W
300W
Recommended PSU
750W
750W
Upscaling
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation
Architecture
RDNA 4 Navi 48
RDNA 2 Navi 21
Process node
TSMC N4P
TSMC N7
MSRP
$600.00
$649.00

Productivity & compute

Radeon RX 9070 XT
Radeon RX 6800 XT
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics (points)
62,189
49,735
3DMark Steel Nomad (points)
7,238
3,672
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
173,157
170,959
PassMark G3D (G3D Mark)
26,923
25,072
Render-Blender (samples/min)
3,357
2,384

Where to buy

Radeon RX 9070 XTfrom $719.99
From$719.99
24 versions in stock
Radeon RX 6800 XTfrom $890.00
From$890.00
4 versions in stock

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