Radeon RX 6800 XT: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 6800 XT provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 62.45% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 6800 XT sales 28 October 2020 at a recommended price of $649. This is a high-end RDNA 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 16 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 dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6800 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking34
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation50.08
Power efficiency14.74of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21
Market segmentDesktop
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 6800 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6800 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4608of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000)
Core clock speed1825 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed2250 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors26,800 millionof 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate648.0of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power20.74 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs128of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs288of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Ray Tracing Cores72of 188 (RTX PRO 6000)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 6800 XT 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6800 XT: 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 amount16 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-
Resizable BAR+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6800 XT. 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, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI+

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon RX 6800 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.1
Vulkan1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 6800 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RX 6800 XT 62.45

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.

RX 6800 XT 24991

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RX 6800 XT 52046

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RX 6800 XT 96516

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX 6800 XT 49735

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 6800 XT 193053

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 6800 XT 504438

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 6800 XT 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD195
1440p138
4K92

Cost per frame, $

1080p3.33
1440p4.70
4K7.05

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Cyberpunk 2077 140−150
Hogwarts Legacy 140−150

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5 191
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Cyberpunk 2077 140−150
Far Cry 5 143
Fortnite 280−290
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
Forza Horizon 5 170−180
Hogwarts Legacy 140−150
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 300−350

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5 183
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Cyberpunk 2077 140−150
Dota 2 166
Far Cry 5 139
Fortnite 280−290
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
Forza Horizon 5 170−180
Grand Theft Auto V 150
Hogwarts Legacy 140−150
Metro Exodus 152
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 294
Valorant 300−350

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 175
Cyberpunk 2077 140−150
Dota 2 145
Far Cry 5 130
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
Hogwarts Legacy 140−150
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 160
Valorant 356

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 280−290

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 170−180
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 450−500
Grand Theft Auto V 120
Metro Exodus 95
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 350−400

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 154
Cyberpunk 2077 80−85
Far Cry 5 131
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
Hogwarts Legacy 75−80
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 140−150

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 150−160

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 80−85
Grand Theft Auto V 134
Hogwarts Legacy 40−45
Metro Exodus 56
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 110
Valorant 300−350

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 103
Counter-Strike 2 80−85
Cyberpunk 2077 40−45
Dota 2 122
Far Cry 5 95
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Hogwarts Legacy 40−45
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 95−100

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 75−80

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 6800 XT's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 6800 XT is GeForce RTX 3080, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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