AMD Radeon Pro W6800 vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and AMD Radeon Pro VII videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 48% higher core clock speed: 2075 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 2507 MHz vs 1700 MHz
  • Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 601.7 GTexel/s vs 408 GTexel/s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 16 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
  • Around 44% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 131707 vs 91280
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 Jun 2021 vs 13 May 2020
Core clock speed 2075 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Boost clock speed 2507 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Texture fill rate 601.7 GTexel/s vs 408 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 16 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 131707 vs 91280

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

  • Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 450 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 450 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro VII

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
131707
91280
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6800 AMD Radeon Pro VII
PassMark - G2D Mark 934
PassMark - G3D Mark 19919
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
Geekbench - OpenCL 131707 91280

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800 AMD Radeon Pro VII

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 5.1
Code name Navi 21 Vega 20
Launch date 8 Jun 2021 13 May 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $2249 $1899
Place in performance rating 108 186
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2507 MHz 1700 MHz
Compute units 60 60
Core clock speed 2075 MHz 1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1203 GFLOPS (1:16) 6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 38.51 TFLOPS (2:1) 26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 19.25 TFLOPS 13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 3840
Pixel fill rate 240.7 GPixel/s 108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 601.7 GTexel/s 408 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 450 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 13230 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 50 mm (2 inches)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches) 305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width 120 mm (4.7 inches) 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.1
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 1024 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)