Radeon Pro W6800 vs ATI 9800 PRO MAXX

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated52
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data23.18
Power efficiencyno data14.21
ArchitectureR300 (2005−2008)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR350Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)8 June 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,249

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data3840
Core clock speed380 MHz2075 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2320 MHz
Number of transistors117 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)94 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate3.040556.8
Floating-point processing powerno data17.82 TFLOPS
ROPs896
TMUs8240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed680 MBps2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.76 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video6x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 32 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 94 Watt 250 Watt

ATI 9800 PRO MAXX has 166% lower power consumption.

Pro W6800, on the other hand, has a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2042.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX and Radeon Pro W6800. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX is a desktop card while Radeon Pro W6800 is a workstation one.


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