AMD Radeon Pro W6800 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 44% higher core clock speed: 2075 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • Around 42% higher boost clock speed: 2507 MHz vs 1770 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 940 vs 791
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19962 vs 18872
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20988 vs 19571
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20988 vs 19571
  • Around 78% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 131707 vs 74179
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 Jun 2021 vs 13 August 2018
Core clock speed 2075 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Boost clock speed 2507 MHz vs 1770 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 940 vs 791
PassMark - G3D Mark 19962 vs 18872
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20988 vs 19571
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20988 vs 19571
Geekbench - OpenCL 131707 vs 74179

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

  • Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 450 Watt
  • 7x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 450 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
940
791
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
19962
18872
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20988
19571
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20988
19571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3357
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
131707
74179
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6800 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
PassMark - G2D Mark 940 791
PassMark - G3D Mark 19962 18872
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20988 19571
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20988 19571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3357
Geekbench - OpenCL 131707 74179
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 488.989
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 5451.006
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 41.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 153.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1534.582
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 13943

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Code name Navi 21 TU102
Launch date 8 Jun 2021 13 August 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $2249 $6,299
Place in performance rating 108 112
Type Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2507 MHz 1770 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 2075 MHz 1440 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1203 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 38.51 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 19.25 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840
Pixel fill rate 240.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 601.7 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 450 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 18,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 50 mm (2 inches)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches) 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 120 mm (4.7 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6