Radeon RX 6800M vs RX Vega 2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated148
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.41
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeNavi 22
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)31 May 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores1282560
Core clock speedno data2116 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2390 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt145 Watt
Texture fill rateno data382.4
Floating-point processing powerno data12.24 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 31 May 2021
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 145 Watt

RX Vega 2 has 866.7% lower power consumption.

RX 6800M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 2 and Radeon RX 6800M. We've got no test results to judge.


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