Radeon RX 6900 vs NVS 810

Place in the ranking	851	36
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.10	19.27
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code name	GM107	Navi 21
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	4 November 2015 (10 years ago)	28 October 2020 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512 ×2	4608
Core clock speed	902 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1033 MHz	2105 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	23,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	68 Watt	255 Watt
Texture fill rate	33.06 ×2	606.2
Floating-point processing power	1.058 TFLOPS ×2	19.4 TFLOPS
ROPs	16 ×2	64
TMUs	32 ×2	288
L1 Cache	256 KB	no data
L2 Cache	1024 KB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	198 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB ×2	16 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit ×2	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s ×2	512.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	8x mini-DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	-	+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2
CUDA	5.0	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

NVS 810 2.74

RX 6900 63.83
+2230%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

NVS 810 1146
Samples: 32

RX 6900 26665
+2227%

Samples: 7869

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.74	63.83
Recency	4 November 2015	28 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	68 Watt	255 Watt

NVS 810 has 275% lower power consumption.

RX 6900, on the other hand, has a 2230% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon RX 6900 is our recommended choice as it beats the NVS 810 in performance tests.

Be aware that NVS 810 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 6900 is a desktop one.