Radeon RX 6800S vs Instinct MI210

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated101
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.81
ArchitectureCDNA 2.0 (2021)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAldebaranNavi 23
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release dateDecember 2021 (2 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 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 cores66562048
Core clock speed1000 MHz1800 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistors58,200 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate707.2268.8
Floating-point processing power22.63 TFLOPS8.602 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUs416128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1600 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,638 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.5
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.02.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 64 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 100 Watt

Instinct MI210 has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

RX 6800S, on the other hand, has 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI210 and Radeon RX 6800S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Instinct MI210 is a workstation card while Radeon RX 6800S is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI210
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