AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
AMD 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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
9.754 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+112%
20.74 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5700 XT
9425
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+105%
19329
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 5700 XT
4414
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+111%
9315
Blender
Radeon RX 5700 XT
1124
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+144%
2752
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
39
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+84%
72
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
74
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+81%
134
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
111
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+69%
188
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
26
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+130%
60
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
35
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+97%
69
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
57
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+78%
102
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
59
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+76%
104
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
113
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+58%
179
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
142
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+40%
199
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
65
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+70%
111
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
80
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+72%
138
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+4%
186
Radeon RX 6800 XT
178
Horizon Forbidden West 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
60
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+78%
107
Horizon Forbidden West 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT
46
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+13%
52
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Oct 2020
Navi
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
1825 MHz
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
72
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
4608
160
TMUs
288
64
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
72
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
288.0 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
648.0 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
41.47 TFLOPS
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.74 TFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1296 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
300W
550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Navi 21
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
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
