AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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

Main Differences

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

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +188%

20.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 XT +152%

19428

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7697

Blender

Radeon RX 6800 XT +11%

2647

Radeon RX 5600 XT

2376

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +132%

72

Radeon RX 5600 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +109%

134

Radeon RX 5600 XT

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +89%

188

Radeon RX 5600 XT

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +121%

104

Radeon RX 5600 XT

47

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +94%

179

Radeon RX 5600 XT

92

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +59%

199

Radeon RX 5600 XT

125

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +122%

111

Radeon RX 5600 XT

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +126%

138

Radeon RX 5600 XT

61

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +4%

178

Radeon RX 5600 XT

170

Radeon RX 6800 XT

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Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2020

Navi II

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

72

Compute Units

36

4608

Shading Units

2304

288

TMUs

144

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Navi 10

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

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

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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