ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC
vs
ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC has 5120 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.34 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 23.96 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.47 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.54 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 80 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 56 execution units.
ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC GPU ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Based on AMD RX Vega 56
Navi 21 GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
RDNA 2 Architecture GCN 5
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
5120 Shader 3584
128 Render Output Units 64
320 Texture Units 256
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.800GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type HBM2
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 0.800 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.6 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 410 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC has a turbo clock of 2.340 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is 1.471 GHz.

1.900 GHz Base Clock 1.156 GHz
2.340 GHz Boost Clock 1.471 GHz
2.11 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

300 W TDP 210 W
345 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 37 dB
34 dB Noise (Load) 49 dB

Connectivity

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version --
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC is 58 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is 58 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

320 mm Length 280 mm
140 mm Height 127 mm
58 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1700 g Weight 1090 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC was released in Q4/2020.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

TUF-RX6900XT-O16G-GAMING Part-no RXVEGA56-8G
Q4/2020 Release date Q3/2017
999 $ Launch Price 399 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC
16 GB GDDR6
119 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC
16 GB GDDR6
131 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC
16 GB GDDR6
114 fps (avg)
ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56
8 GB HBM2
43 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC
16 GB GDDR6
208 fps (avg)
ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56
8 GB HBM2
80 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC ASUS TUF GAMING Radeon RX 6900 XT OC
16 GB GDDR6
208 fps (avg)
ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56
8 GB HBM2
112 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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