AMD Radeon RX 6800M vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4979 points

6138 points

23% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

107 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

78 FPS

100 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

106 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

43 FPS

56 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11742 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9129 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1392.24 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93784 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55272 points

77122 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

113721 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

77386 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87678 points

92086 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

97983 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91729 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2300 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

4096 Bit

2033% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

1024 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

106% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

43% significantly higher pixel rate

115.26 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

368 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.78 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

17% slightly 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd 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

2021 May

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 6800M vs Radeon VII specs and performance

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

The Radeon RX 6800M has a significantly 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 6800M also has a significantly 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, the Radeon VII has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6800M has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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