AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Price

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$ 519.00

$ 143.99 slightly less expensive

$ 662.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9568 points

15475 points

61% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS

326 FPS

130 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS

216 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS

295 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

127 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16155 points

288% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4154 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points

2429.25 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points

142590 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points

157875 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz

0.83% slightly higher core clock speed

1800 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz

2430 MHz

15% 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

624 GB/s

21% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

5% slightly lower TDP

263 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s

233 Gigapixels/s

15% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s

583 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS

36.04 TFLOPS

122% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

8192

113% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

Identical

240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 586

17th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 6800 vs Radeon RX 7800 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6800 in our tests.

In our comparison, 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 7800 XT has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 16 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 6800 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7800 XT at 263 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7800 XT over the Radeon RX 6800.