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Radeon RX 6800 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 6800 makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1700 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which comes with core speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 4608 SPUs along with 288 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6800 250 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT 300 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should have the same performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT will be much (approximately 29%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 6800. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 525600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6800 408000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 117600 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 6800 163200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 70400 (43%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 6800 Radeon RX 6800 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2020 November 2020
Code Name Navi 21 Navi 21
Memory 16384 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1700 MHz 1825 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 GB/s 2000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 524288 MB/sec 524288 MB/sec
Texel Rate 408000 Mtexels/sec 525600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 163200 Mpixels/sec 233600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 3840 4608
Texture Mapping Units 240 288
Render Output Units 96 128
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 7 nm
Transistors 26800 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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