AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 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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$ 488.33

$ 30.67 slightly less expensive

$ 519.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

9568 points

77% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

196 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

143 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

173 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

83 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

16155 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

1896.07 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

129800 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

130322 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

93163 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

176154 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

130005 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

133046 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

1815 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

2105 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

512 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

11% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

202.1 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

505.2 Gigatexels/s

65% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

65% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3840

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

240

49% 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

93rd 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

2019 July

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 5700 XT vs Radeon RX 6800 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6800 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 225 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 5700 XT.