AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo and AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 65% higher boost clock speed: 1975 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 7.5x more pipelines: 3840 vs 512
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 26 Oct 2017
Boost clock speed 1975 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines 3840 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Name AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2786
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2786
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2243
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2243
Geekbench - OpenCL 113306
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1429

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Vega
Code name Navi 21 Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 26 Oct 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $4999
Place in performance rating 531 1350
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1975 MHz 1200 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 948.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.34 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.17 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 512
Pixel fill rate 189.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width Quad-slot

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.1
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 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)
Memory type GDDR6