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.

AMD Radeon Pro W6800

AMD Radeon Pro VII

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 47% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 131707 vs 89550

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 89550

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

89550

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W6800	AMD Radeon Pro VII
PassMark - G2D Mark	921
PassMark - G3D Mark	19952
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	89550

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	113	195
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)