AMD Radeon Pro W6800: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro W6800 sales 8 June 2021 at a recommended price of $2,249. This is high-end Navi / RDNA2 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

General info

Of Radeon Pro W6800's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	32
Value for money	13.44
Architecture	Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Navi 21
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	8 June 2021 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,249
Price now	$2800 (1.2x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Radeon Pro W6800's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro W6800's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3840	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	2075 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	2320 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	26,800 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	250 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	556.8	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon Pro W6800's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro W6800: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	16000 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro W6800. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon Pro W6800, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.1
Vulkan	1.2

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon Pro W6800. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon Pro W6800 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	141
1440p	125
4K	83

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65
Battlefield 5	60−65
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	60−65
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65
Far Cry 5	70
Far Cry New Dawn	61
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
Hitman 3	60−65
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	60−65
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65
Battlefield 5	60−65
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	60−65
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65
Far Cry 5	65
Far Cry New Dawn	59
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
Hitman 3	60−65
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Metro Exodus	160
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	60−65
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	199
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65
Battlefield 5	60−65
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65
Far Cry 5	62
Far Cry New Dawn	55
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	157
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	60−65
Hitman 3	60−65
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Metro Exodus	171
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	60−65

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65
Battlefield 5	60−65
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65
Far Cry 5	64
Far Cry New Dawn	55
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	60−65
Hitman 3	60−65
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Metro Exodus	55
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	60−65
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	99

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65
Battlefield 5	60−65
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65
Far Cry 5	60
Far Cry New Dawn	55
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
Watch Dogs: Legion	60−65

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon Pro W6800 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

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