PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
vs
XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid is based on the AMD RX Vega 64 (GCN 5) and has 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 484 GB/s.

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (RDNA 2) and has 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

GPU

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid has the Vega 10 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 5 architecture.

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 is based on the graphics chip Navi 21, which comes from the RDNA 2 architecture.
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid GPU XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2
AMD RX Vega 64 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Vega 10 XT GPU Chip Navi 21
GCN 5 Architecture RDNA 2
64 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
4096 Shader 5120
64 Render Output Units 128
256 Texture Units 320
0 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The graphics memory of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid clocks at 0.945 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 1.9 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 is 16.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 2.000 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 16 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR6
0.945 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
1.9 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
484 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
2048 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.406 GHz Base Clock 1.950 GHz
1.677 GHz Boost Clock 2.365 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.14 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 295 W.

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 has 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 300 W.

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

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid is equipped with a total of 1 Axial (Radiator) main fans.

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 has 3 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Axial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 36 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid.

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

283 mm Length 340 mm
130 mm Height 139 mm
40 mm Width 57 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q3/2017.

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming V2 came on the market in Q2/2021 and will have a structure width of 7 nanometers manufactured.

AXRX VEGA 64 8GBHBM2-3DHW Part-no RX-69XTATBD9
Q3/2017 Release date Q2/2021
499 $ (Reference) Launch Price 999 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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)

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)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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