AMD Radeon RX 6700S
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S is a graphics card released on January 4, 2022. It has 1,792 shading units, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.89 GHz and a 80 W board power rating. It scores 15,016 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2) and OpenGL 4.6.
Depth: 38 recorded fields, 11 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified July 27, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and AMD.com Specifications. Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S scores 15,016 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 93.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #176), measured across 521 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 737.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon RX 6700S averages DirectX 9 198 fps, DirectX 10 85 fps, DirectX 11 133 fps, DirectX 12 58 fps and GPU Compute 5,852 ops/s, across 521 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
Theoretical throughput
AMD states a peak of FP32 (single precision) 7.92 TFLOPS, FP16 (half precision) 15.84 TFLOPS and Texture fill rate 247.5 GTexel/s for the AMD Radeon RX 6700S.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon RX 6700S states the PCIe 4.0 x8 interface, up to 8 GB of memory, a core clock of 1700 MHz, DirectX 12_2 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2022-02-28. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Shader configuration
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S has 1,792 shading units, 28 compute units and 28 ray tracing cores.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics.
Clock speeds
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S has a game clock of 1.89 GHz.
Memory
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Board and power
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S has a board power rating of 80 W and it connects over PCIe 4.0 x8.
Market
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S was released on January 4, 2022.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2) and OpenGL 4.6.
CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon RX 6700S. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon RX 6700S. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD Radeon RX 6700S.
Features
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S has 4 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Rendering
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Supported: DirectX 12 UltimateMicrosoft's top DirectX 12 feature tier, covering hardware ray tracing, mesh shaders, variable-rate shading and sampler feedback.
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Supported: Hardware ray tracingDedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.Ray tracing units: 28
Not listed (1)
No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 6700S supports AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and Hardware ray tracing under Rendering.
Platform
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Supported: Resizable BAR AMD Smart Access MemoryLets the CPU access the GPU's full video memory at once, which can improve performance in some games on supporting systems.
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Supported: AMD SmartShiftShifts power between an AMD CPU and GPU in a laptop depending on which one needs it.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 6700S supports Radeon Dual Graphics and Switchable graphics. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S supports Resizable BAR (AMD Smart Access Memory) and AMD SmartShift under Platform.
Media engine
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC)4K H.264: encode supported, decode supported | Supported | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported | Supported |
| AV1 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Not listed: VP9. No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 6700S supports this codec; that is silence, not a statement that it is unsupported.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the AMD Radeon RX 6700S have?
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 224.0 GB/s.
How much power does the AMD Radeon RX 6700S use and what power supply does it need?
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S has a board power rating of 80 W.
How fast is the AMD Radeon RX 6700S?
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S scores 15,016 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 93.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #176. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 58 fps.
Does the AMD Radeon RX 6700S support ray tracing?
Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 6700S has hardware ray tracing with 28 ray tracing cores.
Does the AMD Radeon RX 6700S support DirectX 12 Ultimate?
Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 6700S supports DirectX 12 Ultimate.
What bus interface does the AMD Radeon RX 6700S use?
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S connects over PCIe 4.0 x8.
When was the AMD Radeon RX 6700S released?
The AMD Radeon RX 6700S was released on January 4, 2022.
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