AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6800 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 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: 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

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 2105 MHz vs 1630 MHz
1210.6x more texture fill rate: 505.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz

Launch date	28 Oct 2020 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed	2105 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate	505.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 7% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3840
Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 56% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 126207

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	4096 vs 3840
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 126207

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

126207

196748

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6800	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	22313
PassMark - G2D Mark	973
Geekbench - OpenCL	126207	196748
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	432.118
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	41.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	383.037
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2280.457
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	16162
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3373
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16162
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3373
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	16306

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6800	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Navi 21	Vega 10
Launch date	28 Oct 2020	8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$579
Place in performance rating	76	34
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2105 MHz	1630 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1700 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1010 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	32.33 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	16.17 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	4096
Pixel fill rate	202.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	505.2 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	26800 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	40 mm (1.6 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	120 mm (4.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2