ATI Radeon 9800 XT vs RX 6900 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking22not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation29.85no data
Power efficiency16.03no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameNavi 21R360
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5120no data
Core clock speed1825 MHz412 MHz
Boost clock speed2250 MHzno data
Number of transistors26,800 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate720.03.296
Floating-point processing power23.04 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1288
TMUs3208
Ray Tracing Cores80no data

Form factor & compatibility

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

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16AGP 8x
Length267 mmno data
Width3-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x Molex

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount16 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz365 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s23.36 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)9.0
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL2.1N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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 6900 XT 26794
+47746%
ATI 9800 XT 56

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 7 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 60 Watt

RX 6900 XT has an age advantage of 17 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2042.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 9800 XT, on the other hand, has 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon 9800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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