AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800

AMD Radeon VII

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (2105MHz vs 1750MHz)

Lower TDP (250W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 +20%

16.17 TFLOPS

Radeon VII

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 +74%

16233

Radeon VII

9319

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +47%

65

Radeon VII

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +42%

117

Radeon VII

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +47%

168

Radeon VII

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +40%

91

Radeon VII

65

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +56%

178

Radeon VII

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +26%

194

Radeon VII

153

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +48%

98

Radeon VII

66

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +103%

126

Radeon VII

62

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +25%

170

Radeon VII

136

Radeon RX 6800

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Feb 2019

Navi II

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

60

-

3840

Shading Units

3840

240

TMUs

240

96

ROPs

64

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

295W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Vega 20

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

331 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

6.7

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