AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1259.00
$ 96.01 slightly less expensive
$ 1355.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

95 %
116 %
22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

190 FPS
239 FPS
49 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

144 FPS
171 FPS
27 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

170 FPS
211 FPS
41 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

82 FPS
99 FPS
17 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16423
19630
19% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1565.04
1947.33
24% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

129800
150488
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130322
157812
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93163
100571
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

166350
196468
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

126652
149836
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

135565
156427
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz
2015 MHz
11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz
2250 MHz
6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
Identical
16 GiB

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

512 GB/s
Identical
512 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
20% slightly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s
288 Gigapixels/s
42% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s
648 Gigatexels/s
28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS
20.74 TFLOPS
28% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
4608
20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240
288
20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
128
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

18th of 363
13th of 363

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

November 2020
November 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6800 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6800 XT beats the Radeon RX 6800 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 XT 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800 XT over the Radeon RX 6800.

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