AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo vs ATI Radeon X850 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo and ATI Radeon X850 XT 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 16 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 3.5x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 520 MHz
  • 56971.2x more texture fill rate: 474.0 GTexel/s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 130 nm
  • 128x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 85% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1080 MHz
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 520 MHz
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1080 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT

  • 5.8x lower typical power consumption: 69 Watt vs 400 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 69 Watt vs 400 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 XT

Name AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo ATI Radeon X850 XT
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 125290
PassMark - G3D Mark 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 326

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo ATI Radeon X850 XT

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 R400
Code name Navi 21 R480
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 1 December 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $4999
Place in performance rating 496 495
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1975 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1800 MHz 520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 130 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
Pixel fill rate 189.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s 8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt 69 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 160 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Width Quad-slot

API support

DirectX 12.2 9.0b
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 2.0
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 34.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 1080 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR3