AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 659.00

$ 286.00 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11265 points

83% significantly better overall score

6138 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

231 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

167 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

100 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

204 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

106 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19436 points

112% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9129 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2414.65 points

195% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

150488 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

68286 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

157812 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

100571 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

77122 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

200077 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

77386 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

154801 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

92086 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157877 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91729 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2015 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

1024 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

Identical

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

149% significantly higher pixel rate

115.26 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

648 Gigatexels/s

49% significantly higher texture rate

432.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.74 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

13.8 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608

20% slightly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

20% slightly more texture mapping units

240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6800 XT vs Radeon VII comparison

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

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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

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, both the Radeon RX 6800 XT and the Radeon VII have an identical TDP. 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 VII.