Performance Comparisons and Energy Efficiency
Radeon RX 6700 XT does well in some games, not so well in others. We can sum its performance up by totting up the relative QHD framerates/scores in six rasterisation titles whilst also taking the Control result into account. Any card unable to run Control with RT on scores zero.
Pitched this way, we find the $479 AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT to be marginally behind $399 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and around over 10 per cent slower than $499 RTX 3070. There's little indication in our results that having a 12GB framebuffer instead of 8GB offers smoother performance at the target QHD resolution right now, and even at UHD the differences are not impactful.
This may change as we bring a newer, more intensive suite into the fold for the next iteration of cards, but for now, the Radeon RX 6700 XT feels somewhat underpowered and overpriced compared to immediate GeForce competition.
We can also tease out rudimentary comparative energy efficiency by looking at performance and evaluating it against observed power consumption of the GPU alone.
As rival Nvidia cards offer a bit more performance and chew through fewer watts, their metric is better. Class-leading, in fact. That said, Radeon RX 6700 XT certainly isn't bad.
