AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.9x more core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • 129600x more texture fill rate: 648.0 GTexel/s vs 5 GTexel / s
  • 28.8x more pipelines: 4608 vs 160
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1334 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3720 vs 1681
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3374 vs 3290
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3720 vs 1681
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3374 vs 3290
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 28 Oct 2020 vs 21 December 2013
Core clock speed 1825 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 648.0 GTexel/s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4608 vs 160
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1334 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 vs 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3374 vs 3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 vs 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3374 vs 3290

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

  • 15.8x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 300 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3374
3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3374
3290
Name AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 25004
PassMark - G2D Mark 1025
Geekbench - OpenCL 154220
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 578.52
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 52.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 291.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2700.97
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3374 3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3374 3290
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3689

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Navi 21 Caicos
Launch date 28 Oct 2020 21 December 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Place in performance rating 71 1127
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2250 MHz
Compute units 72
Core clock speed 1825 MHz 625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1296 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 41.47 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 20.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4608 160
Pixel fill rate 288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 648.0 GTexel/s 5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 19 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 370 million
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 50 mm (2 inches)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches) 168 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin None
Width 120 mm (4.7 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 512.0 GB/s 10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 1334 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 DDR3