Radeon RX 6700 XT vs R5 A220

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated50
Place by popularitynot in top-10081
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data57.90
Power efficiencyno data15.48
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCaicosNavi 22
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2014 (10 years ago)3 March 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$479

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1602560
Core clock speed775 MHz2321 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2581 MHz
Number of transistors370 million17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate6.200413.0
Floating-point processing powerno data13.21 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MBps2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s384.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 230 Watt

R5 A220 has 557.1% lower power consumption.

RX 6700 XT, on the other hand, has a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A220 and Radeon RX 6700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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