AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2250MHz vs 1560MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT +188%

20.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7697

Radeon RX 6800 XT +152%

19441

Blender

Radeon RX 5600 XT

826

Radeon RX 6800 XT +220%

2650

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

31

Radeon RX 6800 XT +132%

72

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

64

Radeon RX 6800 XT +109%

134

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

99

Radeon RX 6800 XT +89%

188

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

47

Radeon RX 6800 XT +121%

104

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

92

Radeon RX 6800 XT +94%

179

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

125

Radeon RX 6800 XT +59%

199

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

50

Radeon RX 6800 XT +122%

111

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

61

Radeon RX 6800 XT +126%

138

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT

170

Radeon RX 6800 XT +4%

178

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Oct 2020

Navi

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

72

-

2304

Shading Units

4608

144

TMUs

288

64

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

72

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

648.0 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

41.47 TFLOPS

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.74 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1296 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Navi 21

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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