AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800

Price

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$ 395.99

$ 123.01 significantly less expensive

$ 519.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4311 points

9568 points

121% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

89 FPS

196 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS

143 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

173 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

83 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7692 points

16155 points

110% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

619.96 points

1896.07 points

205% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

56432 points

129800 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

57968 points

130322 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48131 points

93163 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

80618 points

176154 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65528 points

130005 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

77765 points

133046 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz

1815 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

2105 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

512 GB/s

52% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.8 Gigapixels/s

202.1 Gigapixels/s

102% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.64 Gigatexels/s

505.2 Gigatexels/s

124% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.19 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

124% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3840

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

240

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

116th of 586

41st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 6800 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6800 is faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT.