AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 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: 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.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 88% higher boost clock speed: 2250 MHz vs 1200 MHz
9x more pipelines: 4608 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
2.6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3689 vs 1429

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 Oct 2020 vs 26 Oct 2017
Boost clock speed	2250 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	4608 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3689 vs 1429

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

3689

1429

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3374
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3374
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3689	1429

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Vega
Code name	Navi 21	Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date	28 Oct 2020	26 Oct 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	71	949
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2250 MHz	1200 MHz
Compute units	72
Core clock speed	1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 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	512
Pixel fill rate	288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	648.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt
Transistor count	26800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	50 mm (2 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin
Width	120 mm (4.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.1
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6