Is AMDs 6700XT Good in 2025!?
Hello everyone and welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we’re taking a look at AMDs Radeon 6700XT….and you’re probably thinking wow that seems a bit new for the channel. Well with prices recently plumetting, and AMD having put in the graft to provide some rather nice feature updates and drivers over the years…Is the Radeon 6700XT one of the best budget buys on the market? And has it done enough to redeem itself in 2025? Enjoy!
Intro – 0:00
So why are we testing this card? – 0:22
The Specs – 1:14
What is the 6700XT & How has opinion changed? – 3:07
Are the Drivers Fixed Now? – 5:43
Undervolting IS CRUCIAL – 6:35
We’re going to be doing alot of testing today – 7:33
The Benchmarks! – 8:10
Performance Summary (and quirks) – 23:30
Emulation Performance is excellent – 25:47
Media & Productivity – 26:40
Conclusion (Should you buy one?) – 28:02
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Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: AMD Radeon 6700XT
RAM: 32GB DDR4
OS: Windows 11 IOT
Haven’t finished the video yet, but I have to say it’s incredibly weird to see the RX 6700 XT framed as a successor to the RX 480. Not only was the 480 in terms of performance, pricing and marketing a clear 6-tier GPU (competing with the 1060, priced around $200, never marketed for 4k), but the 6700 XT was also a direct successor to the 5700 XT, which while it had the infamous black screen issue for some people, was a much higher performance gpu than the 480/580, clearly positioned in a higher performance tier. This would be like looking at the RTX 3070 and framing it as if it was a direct successor to the GTX 1060. It’s a weird and nonsensical take, put simply. If AMD had a successor to the RX 480/580/590, it was the RX 5600 XT, which beat the 480 by about 50%.
Oh, and Vega? No. This is much, much faster. A significantly improved architecture (even first gen Navi was a major perf/clock/CU improvement over GCN), and running at nearly twice the clock speed means this should outperform Vega by about 50%, possibly more despite the lower CU count. The RX 6600 (non-XT) outperforms the Vega 64, if only by a little bit. You might be looking at Tflop numbers and thinking they perform the same, but GCN’s game perf/Tflop rate is much lower than Vega – which is the main reason why AMD split off CDNA (which is a much more direct GCN derivative than RDNA) for server compute use, while moving to RDNA for gaming.
I would like to have more videos reviewing older workstation cards and how they hold up with gaming.
6700XT is one of my favorite cards and that was when it was new. Highly recommended at the right price secondhand. Since then I have had the 6800XT and the RX 9070, but the 6700XT is still remembered fondly as a classic.
Why does the U.K have such bad Internet speeds.?
I just wanted to mention that if you have more than one computer in your house on the LAN, install all the games on a second computer. Steam will download the games from your local computer over the LAN. This could help a bit with installing games over and over again to multiple computers for benchmarking purposes.
Personally I would go for 2080 Ti instead of 6700XT, the price is about the same in the range of 200Euro
24:20 You forgot that not only the memory clocks are higher but that modern cards have the larger L3 infinity cache, this one having 96 MB of it.
Apparently that one is around 2TB/s.
the extra VRAM may well have granted it more longevity than the 3060 Ti and 3070
I had never luck with undervolting my Cards had a 6900 XT and now the 9070XT every time i try to undervolt them they get unstable and crash sad but so, I had the Merc 319 XFX 6900XT and now the acer Nitro 9070XT.
I bought the one like on the video for $400 early in 2022 to play at 4k60 monitor. Still no regrets to this day
You can force games to use FSR4.
ive been running this card since it came out and its held up remarkably well. i had to accept at some point that this card works better as a 1080p card rather than a 1440p card but overall it still runs well. if you need a strong 1080p card and dont care about ray tracig this thing will keep you going for a long while. now if all you care for is ultra graphics and crazy ray tracing youre better off looking at something else. i dont see myself getting a new one until more games move over to forced raytracing and with a few graphics tweaks i get most games looking just as good at 1080p
i got a used i5 8400 pc, added a used 2080s – im so happy. It feels like a PS5 (pro?) that also runs mmos+premiere, to me <3
I bought a 6700XT new when the prices came back down to reasonable to upgrade from a Radeon RX470. I think it was around $350 US? in 2022? The raw performance of the card was decent for the time trading blows with a 3060/3070, especially in Vulcan. I did have all the driver problems you allude to. Was extremely frustrating to have to deal with and troubleshoot random crashes and things not working correctly. I use my HDTV a lot with my gaming PC and always lots of audio drops. Trying to drive three monitors didn’t work either. However I’ve always been upset that AMD straight up lied about the ray tracing. RT performance was so abysmal it may as well not have it plus it doesn’t even support all ray tracing features – the Doom & Quake RT mods won’t run on it. Portal RTX won’t run on it. I played Control on this card and had to disable all ray tracing it tanks the performance.
I handed it down to my wife (an upgrade from a Radeon RX570) paired with a 5700x3d which is about a perfect match. She doesn’t do anything except game on a single 1080p monitor so it works perfect for her. (Serious Sam 4, Slime Rancher 2, Talos Principle)
I replaced it with a 5070ti which is better than the 6700XT in every way. Ray tracing works smooth and perfect. (even without DLSS – which is beautiful on this card when enabled btw). Control went from 80-90fps with RT disabled to a solid locked 165fps with RT on! Multi-channel HDMI audio works perfectly zero drops. My first Nvidia card purchase in 15 years and I’m extremely impressed. (last Nvidia card I bought was a 9800GX2 – now that card was a giant pile of donkey poop!)
3 years ago I bought one used for 325 so this sounds solid since it is still what I am using today and likely for another couple years. I don’t get around to games much so never need to stay on the bleeding edge.
You can usually upgrade FSR 3.0 to 3.1 by dropping in a newer DLL or with a tool like DLSS Swapper. Lossless Scaling is another very useful tool that can apply several different up-scaling methods and/or framegen to most games.
I am watching this video with an 6700XT. I like it I did notice it works much better in Windows 11.
heh funny how im on a 2080 super just got it when the crisis was about to hit
I got a 6700XT during the pandemic for €600 which was a good price then. A 3070 was 900. However I changed it for a 6900XT in 2022 which is what I’m still using.
my gf is still running a rx 5700 (NON XT), she loves it. shreds any game she wants still in 2025. although at medium settings and 80-100fps usually.
When you go over game upscaling options with RDNA2 card, whenever possible, always choose XeSS (1.3 or especially 2.0) over FSR 2 or 3. XeSS has better image stabilization pass than FSR 2/3 and produces a cleaner image.
My 6800 was excellent but didn’t like to be undervolted at all
I’d love to see your reaction to navi 21 gpus. the rx6800 runs at a default voltage of 1025mv for some reason.
My RX 6950 XT sucked for years, but now it works fine. It would crash in several games when there were explosions on screen. The problem doesn’t persist anymore.
I lucked out last year getting a xfx merc 6800xt for $430us brand new. I cringed at the time, but not as much now, looking at these crazy prices today.
yeah but it is still shitty in running dx11 games
The modern era is so bleak with all the forced ray tracing and lazy optimizations/lack of optimizations.
I’ll just play my backlog of 2015-2020 and a little bit of early 2020 era games.
Doom Eternal was a point of optimism for me. It improved upon Doom 2016 in optimization and appearance. While I did not expect a lot of games to follow dooms pattern, I was hoping those games would set a good example of how to design a game in regards to optimization so that we can get a reasonable catalog of games that run really well.
Even in existing games they are just sloppily slapping crap onto it to make them run worse. Games such as Rust for example will run like shit on a ryzen 5800x compared to a year old. 70fps vs 120fps anyone?
Give the 5700XT a go. That card is still great and is cheap now.
XeSS upscaling looks quite good in my opinion
Why you try on windows… Is not Nvidia. Just use Linux.
the 6700XT was excellent 4ish years ago when it was $300 used. It was a decent buy in the shit market. The 6700XT is a slighly Beefier 5700XT, nearly all the specs are the same, but the change from RDNA 1 to 2 brought better clocks and ray tracing support. They perform very similarly as the cores are nearly idenitcal but the 5700XT cant do rays not like it matters and costs about $150ish
Unfortunately I made the mistake of buying the 3070 because I still didn’t believe in AMD as I had bad experiences with their hardware in the past when I did try them. Cost me 1000$ in January of 2021 and the only reason I paid that price was because I knew I could mine it all back and I did and then some, enough to upgrade to the 6800xt a year and a bit later for 500$ because I was already feeling the 8GB VRAM wasn’t enough for my use, got a 6600xt from a miner for 125$ a couple years ago (sorry I didn’t buy a few) in very good condition as he was using a filtration system in his mining room, also got a 6950xt a year ago from the Asrock Amazon store for 420$ so now the 6700xt is the only AMD card I’m missing in my collection, will probably buy 1 used if I find a good deal. IMO the RDNA 2 gen was the best and been going downhill priceperformance wise since, not interested in the RDNA 3 gen at those prices and of course 0% chance I’m giving ngreedia my $$, don’t want that garbage even used.
I’ve been used RX 6700XT since may 2024 with Red devil variants
still good using this cards (second in hand) I can play AAA or old games without problem
I recently bought RX 6650 XT second-hand, love it, runs at max, will use it for years to come.
What annoys me is not just that AMD over volts their cards, but the fanboys who take it as a feature.
The other thing, (nothing to do with this video) and this is for all GPUs and all people, if a GPU needs upscaling and/or frame gen to run at good framerate at 1440p (or any resolution), then it is NOT a 1440p card. Perhaps it was when it was new, if it’s an old card. If it is a current model it means it never was a 1440p card. Stop pretending it is. If you have to do upscaling and/or lower settings to make it run well at a certain resolution for games, it’s not that resolution card. Stop lying to yourselves.
Seeing the results, it looks like a fine card one shouldn’t be disappointed with if they had to use it. I wonder how it handles Robocop.
Good job AMD.
Thanks for the video.
Had one until recently
Absolutely loved the card, it was really good in VR too!
My idiot self bought a 6900xt in the peak of GPU crisis for a price id rather not say…that being said its served me well and I plan to keep it awhile longer. Plus it looks real nice (red devil)
I got a 6750XT when it came out and its still doing damn good until now. These cards might hang in there for quite some time.
This card would do even better on a Ryzen 7600x/9600x
My r5 3600xt and 6700xt combo still going strong in 2025 👊🏻
I actually have this card on the way, coming from a 2gb 550 the upgrade is gonna be insane lmao
i have a 6700xt. rather good card, loved it but upgraded to a 7900xtx for better 1440p and a little bit of 4k gaming
I have the rx6700 non xt and you can run everything max at least 60 fps, not using FSR, the only thing i saw with this gen of cards its that you need to remove the minimum frecuency and set the min and max the same as with some games it can give you massive strutters for example Elden Ring. The card is faster than my mates rtx 4060 in some games.
I feel like PowerColor Fighter is the best version for 6700xt
I didn’t expect Budget to do a video on a card better than mine for another 2 or 3 years. (RX6650XT)
Got my mum a 6700xt, for her anno, sims, inzoi.
Regarding shader compilation: this is a CPU limited workload so the bottleneck was your 3700X. This is why shader compilation caused instability with degraded Intel CPUs.
Also RT requires extra VRAM which is a big issue on Nvidia cards where the GPU itself might be better at RT but it doesn’t have enough VRAM for the GPU to perform as well as it otherwise would. It’s entirely possible for the RX 6700 XT to outperform 8GB Nvidia cards at RT because of that. I doubt you can get an RTX card with a similar amount of VRAM for anywhere close what you can get an RX 6700 XT for. Also the RX 6700 non-XT is worth looking into. It uses a cut down version of the Navi 22 GPU and has 10GB of VRAM.
Do 6800 non xt next!
Man, this B350 Strix Gaming F that you use is the best Strix out there. No stupid plastic shroud and awesome onboard Audio! Hell i use it since Release in 2017 – now with a 5700X and RX 9960XT ❤
Bought this one back in December of 2024 for my new year present for myself. 250USD (this was pretty cheap in my country) and it is really great. Yeah, the RT perfomance is not that great, but in 1080p Ultra is awesome. Paired it with my R7 5700x and played every title i wanted with ease. Still think it’s a great deal!