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Radeon RX 6700 bottleneck & FPS

Ranked 52 of 126 desktop graphics cards in our database (59th percentile). Paired with a Core i3-8350K it lands near 59 fps at 1080p and 9 fps at 4K in a typical AAA title at high settings.

SpecificationsRDNA 2 · 2021
ArchitectureRDNA 2
Shading units2,304
Boost clock2,450 MHz
Memory10 GB
Memory bandwidth320 GB/s
Board power175 W
Released2021
Frame rate by resolutionwith Core i3-8350K, high
ResolutionEst. FPSGPU loadLimited by
1920 x 1080 59 98% Balanced
2560 x 1440 35 99% Graphics card
3440 x 1440 27 99% Graphics card
3840 x 2160 9 99% Graphics card
Best matched processors1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes, not by which processor is fastest. The fastest chip pairs well with everything, which makes it a useless recommendation.

ProcessorEst. FPSUnused
Core i3-8350K 59 0.7%
Core i3-9100 59 4.1%
Core i3-9100F 59 4.1%
Core i3-9300 59 6.3%
Core i3-8300 54 8.1%
Core i3-9320 59 8.5%
Estimated FPS by game1440p, high, Core i3-8350K
GameEst. FPSVRAM
Cyberpunk 2077 19 11.5 GB needed
Fortnite 48 OK
Counter-Strike 2 95 OK
Baldur's Gate 3 35 OK
Red Dead Redemption 2 27 OK
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 26 10.8 GB needed

Who a Radeon RX 6700 is actually for

This is mainstream 1080p hardware. At that resolution it is usually the component doing the limiting, which is good news for pairing — it will not be held back by a modest processor, so there is no need to spend heavily on the chip beside it.

Pushing it to 1440p is possible in lighter titles, but expect to drop settings in demanding ones.

Is 10 GB enough?

10 GB is adequate for most of what we model, but falls short in 4 of 16 titles at 1440p and high settings. Running out of video memory does not degrade gracefully — frame times spike rather than the average simply dropping, so it feels considerably worse than a small average loss would suggest. Dropping texture quality one step almost always recovers it.

Where it sits

Ranked 52 of 126 desktop cards we model. Nearest faster: Radeon RX 5700 XT, Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB. Just below: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X. Full method on the methodology page.