AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11265 points

1799% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

231 FPS

218 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

167 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

204 FPS

192 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19436 points

1262% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2414.65 points

2624% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

157812 points

1700% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

100571 points

1022% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

200077 points

1766% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

154801 points

1565% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157877 points

1285% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2015 MHz

571% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

2000 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

45 W

566% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

1699% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

648 Gigatexels/s

912% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.74 TFLOPS

912% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608

800% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

800% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2021 January

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 XT vs Radeon Vega 8 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 6800 XT over the Radeon Vega 8.