Radeon Pro W6800X Duo: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 33.34% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro W6800X Duo sales 3 August 2021 at a recommended price of $4,999. This is a RDNA 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a quad-slot graphics card attached via Apple MPX interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 400 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon Pro W6800X Duo: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking156
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.85
Power efficiency6.70of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code nameNavi 21
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date3 August 2021 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,999 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro W6800X Duo's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3840 ×2of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1800 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1967 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors26,800 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)400 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate472.1 ×2of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power15.11 TFLOPS ×2of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs96 ×2of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs240 ×2of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores60 ×2of 188 (RTX PRO 6000)
L0 Cache960 KBof 3 MB (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
L1 Cache768 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache4 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L3 Cache128 MBof 256 MB (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro W6800X Duo and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceApple MPX
Length267 mm
WidthQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro W6800X Duo: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB ×2of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bit ×2of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed2000 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s ×2of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
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Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro W6800X Duo. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 4x Thunderbolt
HDMI+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon Pro W6800X Duo, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.1
Vulkan1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro W6800X Duo. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Pro W6800X Duo
33.34

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Pro W6800X Duo Samples: 2 14742

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 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.

Closest competitors

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro W6800X Duo is Quadro RTX 4000, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro W6800X Duo:

Quadro P6000 105.37
Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 100
Quadro GP100 92.98

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