Radeon RX 6800 XT vs Radeon RX 5700 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 18% (2250MHz vs 1905MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+112%
20740
Radeon RX 5700 XT
9754
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+105%
19329
Radeon RX 5700 XT
9425
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+111%
9315
Radeon RX 5700 XT
4414
Blender
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+144%
2752
Radeon RX 5700 XT
1124
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+84%
72
Radeon RX 5700 XT
39
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+81%
134
Radeon RX 5700 XT
74
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+69%
188
Radeon RX 5700 XT
111
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+130%
60
Radeon RX 5700 XT
26
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+97%
69
Radeon RX 5700 XT
35
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+78%
102
Radeon RX 5700 XT
57
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+76%
104
Radeon RX 5700 XT
59
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+58%
179
Radeon RX 5700 XT
113
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+40%
199
Radeon RX 5700 XT
142
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+70%
111
Radeon RX 5700 XT
65
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+72%
138
Radeon RX 5700 XT
80
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
178
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+4%
186
Horizon Forbidden West 1080p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+78%
107
Radeon RX 5700 XT
60
Horizon Forbidden West 1440p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+13%
52
Radeon RX 5700 XT
46
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jul 2019
Navi II
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1825 MHz
Base Clock
1605 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1905 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
72
Compute Units
40
4608
Shading Units
2560
288
TMUs
160
128
ROPs
64
72
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
288.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.9 GPixel/s
648.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
304.8 GTexel/s
41.47 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.51 TFLOPS
20.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.754 TFLOPS
1296 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
609.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
225W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
Navi 10
Navi 21 XT
(215-121000177)
GPU Variant
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
7 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
10.3 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
251 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.5
Shader Model
6.5
